vocation, profession, or trade: What is your calling?
a call or summons: He had a calling to join the church.
a strong impulse or inclination: She did it in response to an inner calling.
a convocation: the calling of Congress.
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It's probably wise to listen to our callings. Sometimes they're loud—like someone calling our name—or sometimes they're much more subtle, like that little voice in our head telling us “this is what we’re meant to do.”
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Origin of calling
Middle English word dating back to 1200–50; see origin at call, -ing1
SYNONYMS FOR calling
2 mission, province, forte, specialty, field.
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Words nearby calling
Callicrates, calligraph, calligraphy, Callimachus, call-in, calling, calling card, call-in pay, call in question, call in sick, calliope
Here you have a guy whose calling card is consistency working for a guy whose calling card is inconsistency.
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Hall "has set up terminals in areas that were burned severely to provide evacuated families with wireless calling and Internet access to file insurance claims," CNBC wrote.
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After months of calling, writing, and protesting, the city’s restaurant owners finally have an outdoor dining plan
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Between 25 and 30, you’re trying to decide how much longer before you start growing a beard and calling yourself ‘Daddy.
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The last band I was in was kind of a Sonic Youth rip-off band, and I thought that that was my calling.
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He might even stand up for these rookies he was now calling children of God.
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DeCrow would come to lead a movement against this practice, suing the Hotel Syracuse in 1969 and calling for protests and sit-ins.
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Mr. Hull spoke briefly of his reason for calling the meeting.
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Nevertheless, the calling of guide was kept in the same family for generations.
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I offered to save Mrs. Ronald the trouble of calling here, by sending letters or cards to her present residence.
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It is more highly cultivated and more civilised than a climber with a proper sense of his calling could possibly approve of.
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All along, the killdeer were darting about, calling loudly and piercingly.
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British Dictionary definitions for calling
calling
/ (ˈkɔːlɪŋ) /
noun
a strong inner urge to follow an occupation, etc; vocation