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calling
NOUN:

1. an occupation, vocation, profession, or trade:
What is your calling?

2. a call or summons:
He had a calling to join the church.

3. a strong impulse or inclination:
She did it in response to an inner calling.

4. a strong inner urge to follow an occupation, etc; vocation.

5. a strong inner impulse toward a particular course of action especially when accompanied by conviction of divine influence.

6. the vocation or profession in which one customarily engages.

7. a convocation:
the calling of Congress.

8. the act of a person or thing that calls.

Examples:

He had always felt a calling to help others. // He experienced a calling to enter the priesthood.

Origin:

Middle English word dating back to 1200–50; see origin at call, -ing1.

Sources: 1, 2.

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