Other forms: vocations
A vocation is the work you feel born to do. A true vocation, a sense of vocation, missed his vocation.
It means a calling rather than a job, and it is used most of nursing, teaching, medicine and the priesthood — where the word originated. The trouble with vocation is that employers know it: work described as a vocation is reliably paid less than work that is not. Note vocational, which means job-related training and has quite lost the sense of calling.
1nounvocationThe work you feel born to do.
“Nursing was her vocation; she had wanted to care for sick people since childhood.”
vocation is a calling.
Latin vocatio means a calling, from vocare, to call. Vocal, invoke and voice come from the same calling, and the religious sense came first.
Old French
vocation
Middle English
vocacioun
English, today
vocation
From Middle English vocacioun, from Old French vocation. From Middle English vocacioun, from Old French vocation, from Latin vocātiō.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA