curriculum vitae

UK/kəˈɹɪkjələm ˈviːteɪ/US/kəˈɹɪkjələm ˈviːteɪ/

nounB2Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

A curriculum vitae is the document listing your education and jobs. Send a curriculum vitae.

In Britain it is used for any job and in America it means a long academic version. It is nearly always shortened to CV, which almost nobody expands.

Definitions of curriculum vitae

1nouncurriculum vitaeThe document listing your education and jobs.B2
“The curriculum vitae ran to nine pages and nobody read past one.”

curriculum vitae is a document.

Also accepted in games: cv

Latin curriculum vitae means the course of a life, from currere, to run.

Built from

From Latin curriculum (“course”) + vītae, genitive of vīta (“life”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA