1 a strong desire or feeling of duty to do a particular job, especially one in which you help other people
SYNVOCATION:
He realized that his calling was to preach the gospel.
2 (formal) a profession or career:
My father considered engineering one of the highest possible callings.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for calling is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is calling a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, calling is tagged as noun.
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