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Carrière

Carrière

See also: carriere and carrière

Translingual

Proper noun

Carrière

  1. A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Élie Abel Carrière (1818-1896).

carrière

carrière

See also: carriere and Carrière

Dutch

Noun

carrière f (plural carrières, diminutive carrièretje n)

  1. career, a person's occupation(s), calling in life;

Synonyms


French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ka.ʁjɛʁ/

Etymology

From Old Provençal carreira or Italian carriera, itself from Old Provençal, from Late Latin carrāria, from Latin carrus. Compare the inherited doublet charrière.

Noun

carrière f (plural carrières)

  1. (originally) racecourse
  2. career
  3. quarry

Derived terms