Dictionary entry

Career

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ca‐reer″ (?), n. [F. carrière 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.