calling

1. 1.

   the particular occupation for which you are trained

   Synonymscareervocation

   Broaderoccupation

   Narrowerspecializationlifeworkwalk of lifebusiness life

Other forms of calling

plural

callings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about calling

What does calling mean?

calling means "the particular occupation for which you are trained".

How many syllables are in calling?

calling has 2 syllables: cal-ling. The stress falls on "cal". In IPA it is /ˈkɔlɪŋ/.

What is another word for calling?

Close synonyms include career, vocation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calling a common word?

calling is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.