Hypertext Webster Gateway: "career"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Career \Ca*reer"\, n. [F. carri[`e]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)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

career
n 1: the particular occupation for which you are trained [syn: {calling},
{vocation}]
2: the general progression of your working or professional
life; "the general had had a distinguished career"; "he
had a long career in the law" [syn: {life history}]
v : move headlong at high speed; "The cars careered down the
road"; "The mob careered through the streets"


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