CALLING: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for CALLING?

Need another word that means the same as “calling”? Find 19 synonyms and 30 related words for “calling” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Calling” are: career, vocation, mission, profession, occupation, work, employment, job, day job, business, trade, craft, line, line of work, pursuit, métier, walk of life, province, field

Calling as a Noun

Definitions of "Calling" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “calling” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A profession or occupation.
• A strong urge towards a particular way of life or career; a vocation.
• The action or sound of calling.
• The particular occupation for which you are trained.

Synonyms of "Calling" as a noun (19 Words)

business	Business concerns collectively. A racially integrated business concern.
career	The time spent by a person in a career. The general had had a distinguished career.
craft	An aircraft or spaceship. The artist learned his craft in Holland.
day job	The time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside.
employment	The state of having paid work. He travelled in a variety of employments.
field	The force exerted or potentially exerted in a field. The diamond fields of South Africa.
job	A workplace as in the expression on the job. A series of daring bank jobs.
line	Each of usually five horizontal lines forming a stave in musical notation. The superintendent was thinking along the same lines.
line of work	The maximum credit that a customer is allowed.
mission	The organized work of a religious missionary. Gandhi s attitude to mission and conversion.
métier	An asset of special worth or utility.
occupation	The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money. Occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal.
profession	A body of people engaged in a particular profession. They were baptized on profession of faith.
province	A principal administrative division of a country or empire. It was his province to take care of himself.
pursuit	The act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture. They criticized the boy for his limited pursuits.
trade	A trade wind. A move to ban all trade in ivory.
vocation	The particular occupation for which you are trained. GNVQs in Leisure and Tourism will be the introduction to a wide span of vocations.
walk of life	An advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls.
work	A place where work is done. The work of an active imagination.

Usage Examples of "Calling" as a noun

• The calling of a cuckoo.
• He considered engineering one of the highest possible callings.
• Those who have a special calling to minister to others' needs.

Associations of "Calling" (30 Words)

aspirant	An ambitious and aspiring young person. A lofty aspirant.
barrister	A person called to the bar and entitled to practise as an advocate, particularly in the higher courts.
career	The time spent by a person in a career. A career diplomat.
chef	Work as a chef. He cheffed on a yacht in the Riviera for two years.
contractor	A bodily organ that contracts. The school meals service is provided by private contractors.
credential	Provide with credentials. The Russian ambassador presented his credentials on September 30.
employed	(of a person) having a paid job. Up to 40 per cent of employed people are in part time jobs.
employment	The state of being employed or having a job. The employment of a full time tutor.
hired	Hired for the exclusive temporary use of a group of travelers. Hired hands.
job	A workplace as in the expression on the job. Dry rot did the job of destroying the barn.
latecomer	Someone who arrives late. Latecomers were not admitted before the interval.
livelihood	The financial means whereby one lives. He could no longer earn his own livelihood.
milkman	A man who delivers and sells milk.
occupation	The period of time during which a place or position or nation is occupied. Occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal.
occupational	Relating to a job or profession. An occupational pension scheme.
office	Professional or clerical workers in an office. A company which has four US and four European offices.
pedagogue	Someone who educates young people.
plumber	A person who fits and repairs the pipes, fittings, and other apparatus of water supply, sanitation, or heating systems.
profession	A body of people engaged in a particular profession. A barrister by profession.
professional	Worthy of or appropriate to a professional person competent skilful or assured. Young professional people.
professionally	In a professional manner. The situation was handled professionally.
prophetic	Foretelling events as if by supernatural intervention. Words that proved prophetic.
recruiter	An official who enlists personnel for military service. A recruiter will schedule you for an interview.
retired	Having left one’s job and ceased to work. A very retired individual.
sinecure	A benefice to which no spiritual or pastoral duties are attached. Political sinecures for the supporters of ministers.
solicitor	A member of the legal profession qualified to deal with conveyancing the drawing up of wills and other legal matters A solicitor may also instruct barristers and represent clients in some courts. She had been a telephone solicitor for a Chicago newspaper.
subcontractor	A firm or person that carries out work for a company as part of a larger project.
unemployment	The state of being unemployed. A time of high unemployment.
vocation	A person’s employment or main occupation, especially regarded as worthy and requiring dedication. Not all of us have a vocation to be nurses or doctors.
vocational	Of or relating to a vocation or occupation; especially providing or undergoing training in special skills. Vocational training.