Unless you can find someone to pay you to sip fancy tropical drinks on the beach, your vocation is not likely to be a vacation. Rather, the word means something you know how to do––or what you do for a living.
A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.
Noun
the particular occupation for which you are trained
Noun
a body of people doing the same kind of work
n.
A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation
or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.
n.
Destined or appropriate employment; calling; occupation;
trade; business; profession.
n.
A calling by the will of God.
n.
The bestowment of God's distinguishing grace upon a
person or nation, by which that person or nation is put in the way of
salvation; as, the vocation of the Jews under the old dispensation, and
of the Gentiles under the gospel.
n.
A call to special religious work, as to the ministry.
Vocation
What can be urged for them who not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere wantonness make themselves ridiculous?2.
He would think his service greatly rewarded, if he might obtain by that means to live in the sight of his prince, and yet practice his own chosen vocation.3.
Every member of the same [the Church], in his vocation and ministry.
A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.
Usage Examples
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe thing with me is, if I wake up one morning and I'm not happy working as an actress, I'll stop. It's not something I have to do. It's not a vocation.
The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost.
Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
I'd always felt very strongly in the power of vocation.
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