What does "career" mean?
Career: A running; full speed; a rapid course. When a horse is running in his full career. Wilkins.
Additional senses
- 2.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 pubic character; as, Washington's career as a soldier. An impartial view of his whole career. Macaulay.
- 3.(Falconary) The fight of a hawk.
- 4.To move or run rapidly. areering gayly over the curling waves. W. Irving.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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