vocación

f.

vocation, calling, avocation.

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vocación

► nombre femenino

1 vocation, calling

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noun f.

calling, vocation

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SF vocation, calling

errar la vocación — to miss one's vocation

tener vocación por — to have a vocation for

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femenino

a) (inclinación) vocation

tiene vocación de músico/para las artes — he has a vocation for music/for the arts

b) (Relig) vocation, calling

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= vocation, calling, avocation.

Ex. In her previous vocation she served as Curator of History at the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences and later as Assistant to the Director of Johns Hopkins University, Institute of History and Medicine.

Ex. This function may not seem of the highest professional calling.

Ex. Being a librarian may be, for many, an avocation, but for all, it is certainly a job, and one which, like so many client-serving and cultural occupations, has become increasingly professionalized.

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* profesión de vocación social = caring profession.

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femenino

a) (inclinación) vocation

tiene vocación de músico/para las artes — he has a vocation for music/for the arts

b) (Relig) vocation, calling

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= vocation, calling, avocation.

Ex: In her previous vocation she served as Curator of History at the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences and later as Assistant to the Director of Johns Hopkins University, Institute of History and Medicine.

Ex: This function may not seem of the highest professional calling.

Ex: Being a librarian may be, for many, an avocation, but for all, it is certainly a job, and one which, like so many client-serving and cultural occupations, has become increasingly professionalized.

* profesión de vocación social = caring profession.

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vocación

feminine

1 (inclinación) vocation

tiene vocación para las artes/de músico he has a vocation for the arts/for music, he is naturally inclined toward(s) the arts/toward(s) music

2 (Relig) vocation, calling

tiene vocación (religiosa) she has a religious vocation o calling

debes tener vocación de mártir para aguantarlo (hum); you're a real saint to put up with it (colloq)

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vocación sustantivo femenino
vocation;

◊ tiene vocación de músico he has a vocation for music

vocación sustantivo femenino vocation
(religiosa) calling

'vocación' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
llamar
- llamada
- tardía
- tardío
- errar
English:
mission
- vocation

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vocación nf

1. [religiosa] vocation;

me falta vocación I lack vocation

2. [inclinación] [médica, educativa] vocation;

tener vocación artística to be a born artist;

un partido con vocación de gobierno a party with its sights on government

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vocación

f vocation;

errar la vocación get into the wrong line of work

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vocación nf, pl -ciones : vocation