career
/kəˈɪə/kur-IR
/kɚˈɪɹ/kur-IR
Meaninga cart road; a course
Common meaning: one's working life
Other meanings: to rush
- cara four-wheeled cartLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 295 · scan
- eragent ending: one who
Journey through time
- Latincarrus‘a four-wheeled cart’
- Old Frenchcarieresource
- Englishcareer‘one's working life’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin carrus ‘a four-wheeled cart’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry carrus, p. 104 · dictionary scan; Skeat, Etymological Dictionary (1898), entry CAREER, p. 94 · dictionary scan
Roots
- carrus Latin “a four-wheeled cart”
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