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/kərˈɪr/ Listen

noun

Career n.

A race course: the ground run over. "To go back again the same career."

A running; full speed; a rapid course. "When a horse is running in his full career."

General course of action or conduct in life, or in a particular part or calling in life, or in some special undertaking; usually applied to course or conduct which is of a public character; as, Washington's career as a soldier. "An impartial view of his whole career."

(Falconry) The flight of a hawk.

verb

Career v. i. (past & past part. careered; pres. part. careering) To move or run rapidly. "Careering gayly over the curling waves."

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Etymology of 'Career'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Career" Quotes from Famous Books

... was banished with some of his most loyal followers, he began a career of petty banditry in the Lowland's depths. Spawn and Perona kept in communication with him, and, by a method which was presently made startlingly clear to Jetta and me, De Boer smuggled the quicksilver for Perona and Spawn. It was this activity which had finally aroused my ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 • Various

... late Mr. George Bentley) assured me that if I wrote another 'spiritualistic' book, I should lose the public hearing I had just gained. I do not know why he had formed this opinion, but as he was a kindly personal friend, and took a keen interest in my career, never handing any manuscript of mine over to his 'reader,' but always reading it himself, I felt it incumbent upon me, as a young beginner, to accept the advice which I knew could only be given with the very best intentions towards me. ...

— The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance • Marie Corelli

... weep once more, and fondly shook my hand. I blessed my stars that I had, at the very outset of my career, met with one who was so likely to aid me. What a slanderous world it is, thought I; the people in our village call these Republicans wicked and bloody-minded; a lamb could not be more tender than this sentimental bottle-nosed gentleman! The worthy man then gave ...

— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray

... over at Starlight as he sat there quite careless and comfortable-looking, as if he'd no call to trouble his head about anything. 'Isn't your life worth mending or saving? Why keep on this reckless miserable career which you ...

— Robbery Under Arms • Thomas Alexander Browne, AKA Rolf Boldrewood

... a much more logical result. "We are proud of having so immensely out-stripped our lower animal ancestors, and derive from it the consoling assurance that in future also, mankind, as a whole, will follow the glorious career of progressive development, and attain a still higher degree of mental perfection." (Haeckel, "Hist. of Creat.") This is the theme which is repeated in many variations in all books of similar tendency. ...

— The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality • Rudolf Schmid

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