curriculum vitae

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   a summary of your academic and work history

   SynonymsCVresume

   Broadersummary

Questions about curriculum vitae

What does curriculum vitae mean?

curriculum vitae means "a summary of your academic and work history".

What is another word for curriculum vitae?

Close synonyms include CV, resume. 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 curriculum vitae a common word?

curriculum vitae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.