calling

A strong urge (to do some particular thing with or in one's life, for example to become religious, to help the poor, or to be an entertainer).

Noun

  1. A strong urge (to do some particular thing with or in one's life, for example to become religious, to help the poor, or to be an entertainer).
  2. A job or occupation.
    • Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses...

Origin

From Middle English calling, callynge, equivalent to call + -ing.

Forms

callings

Synonyms

vocation

Derived

callingly calling over calling party cop-calling hog calling playcalling SELCAL SelCal

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of call

Origin

From Middle English callyng, kallyng, kalland, from Old English *cealliende and Old Norse kallandi, equivalent to call + -ing.