Word Meanings - CALLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one. 2. A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament. The frequent calling and meeting of Parlaiment. Macaulay. 3. A divine summons

Additional info about word: CALLING

1. The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one. 2. A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament. The frequent calling and meeting of Parlaiment. Macaulay. 3. A divine summons or invitation; also, the state of being divinely called. Who hath . . . called us with an holy calling. 2 Tim. i. 9. Give diligence to make yior calling . . . sure. 2 Pet. i. 10. 4. A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in legislative bodies. 5. One's usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade. The humble calling of ter female parent. Thackeray. 6. The persons, collectively, engaged in any particular professions or employment. To impose celibacy on wholy callings. Hammond. 7. Title; appellation; name. I am more proud to be Sir Rowland's son His youngest son, and would not change that calling. Shak. Syn. -- Occupation; employment; business; trade; profession; office; engagement; vocation.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CALLING)

• Art
• Science
• literature
• aptitude
• readiness
• adroitness
• skill
• dexterity
• cunning
• deceit
• duplicity
• tactics
• profession
• artifice
• management
• trade
• business
• calling
• Avocation
• Profession
• lot
• employment
• vocation
• occupation
• pursuit
• line
• Business
• Occupation
• transaction
• office
• interest
• duty
• affair
• matter
• concern
• Duty
• Obligation
• part
• responsibility
• allegiance
• function
• once
• province
• trust
• commission
• service
• Inviting
• Attracting
• summoning
• alluring
• tempting

Related words: (words related to CALLING)

• INVITER
  One who, or that which, invites.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• TRADE-MARK
  A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• CALLE
  A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• TRUSTEE
  A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects
• TRUSTY
  1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his
• ARTIFICER
  A military mechanic, as a blacksmith, carpenter, etc.; also, one who prepares the shells, fuses, grenades, etc., in a military laboratory. Syn. -- Artisan; artist. See Artisan. (more info) 1. An artistic worker; a mechanic or manufacturer; one
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• TEMPTER
  One who tempts or entices; especially, Satan, or the Devil, regarded as the great enticer to evil. "Those who are bent to do wickedly will never want tempters to urge them on." Tillotson. So glozed the Tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.
• TEMPTING
  Adapted to entice or allure; attractive; alluring; seductive; enticing; as, tempting pleasures. -- Tempt"ing*ly, adv. -- Tempt"ing*ness, n.
• OCCUPATION
  1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• ATTRACTABILITY
  The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.
• DEXTERITY
  1. Right-handedness. 2. Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel. In youth quick bearing and dexterity. Shak. 3. Readiness in the use or control of the
• TRADESFOLK
  People employed in trade; tradesmen. Swift.
• ATTRACTILE
  Having power to attract.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• GYMNASTICALLY
  In a gymnastic manner.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• UNEMPIRICALLY
  Not empirically; without experiment or experience.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• METEMPTOSIS
  The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years,
• ADVOCATION
  The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court. Bell. (more info) 1. The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy. The holy Jesus . . . sits in heaven in a perpetual advocation for us. Jer. Taylor. 2. Advowson.
• UNIVOCALLY
  In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.
• SELF-TRUST
  Faith in one's self; self-reliance.
• PARABOLICALLY
  1. By way of parable; in a parabolic manner. 2. In the form of a parabola.