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avocation (av" oh KAY shuhn) (noun)
An activity taken up in addition to one's regular work or profession, usually for enjoyment; a hobby: Lana's favorite avocation is reading.
vocation (voh KAY shuhn) (noun)
A regular occupation, especially one for which a person is particularly suited or qualified: Darwin is a carpenter by vocation, but his hobby is painting.

Anytime someone is able to combine his or her avocation and vocation; such as, being a professor of literature and writing a novel in the spare time, is a very lucky person indeed.

vocation (s) (noun), vocations (pl)
1. An occupation that is often referred to as a "calling", because it is "a call to follow a way of life": The notion that a disembodied "voice" is calling people to their purpose on earth is the basis for the word vocation.
2. A call to, or fitness for, a certain career; especially, a religious position: Susan decided to become a nun and to serve in the church as her vocation because she felt deep down inside that God wanted her to serve Him, so she went to a convent to live and work.
3. The work or profession for which one has a sense of special fitness: Thomas was very good at writing essays in school in foreign languages and so he loved to travel and he thought that his vocation would be that of a foreign correspondent for television or for a news agency.
4. A strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation: Lisa loved playing piano and was quite successful playing in recitals as a student, and she and her teachers felt that she had the talent, competency and endurance to choose the vocation of being a professional pianist.
5. Etymology: borrowed from Middle French, or directly from Latin vocation-, vocatio-, "a call" or "a summons"; from Latin vocare, "to call", and is related to voc-, vox, "voice".

The original meaning of vocation in 1426 was "a call from God to follow a spiritual way of life", as in "the priestly vocation or "the vocation of a nun".

The sense of one's ordinary occupation, or profession, is first recorded in English in 1553; perhaps influenced by that meaning which existed in Middle French.

—Based on information from
Semantic Antics by Sol Steinmetz;
Random House Reference; New York; 2008; page 242.
and
The Barnhart dictionary of Etymology, Robert K. Barnhart, Editor;
The H.W. Wilson Company; Bronxville, New York; 1988; page 1209.
A regular job or occupation.
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Word Entries at Get Words containing the term: “vocation
voc-, voca-, vocab-, vocat-, -vocation, -vocative, -vocable, vok-, -voke
Latin: call, talk, speak, say, voice; word; in this unit.