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De - Pt| English Dictionary: [career] | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for [career] | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Career \Ca*reer"\, n. [F. carri[8a]re race course, high road, street, fr. L. carrus wagon. See {Car}.] 1. A race course: the ground run over. To go back again the same career. --Sir P. Sidney. 2. A running; full speed; a rapid course. When a horse is running in his full career. --Wilkins. 3. 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. --Macaulay. 4. (Falconry) The flight of a hawk. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Career \Ca*reer"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Careered} 3; p. pr. & vb. n. {Careering}] To move or run rapidly. areering gayly over the curling waves. --W. Irving. | |
