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Carrière

Carrière

See also: carriere and carrière

Translingual

Proper noun

Carrière

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)

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

Synonyms

(occupations) loopbaan
(calling) roeping

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)

(originally) racecourse
career
quarry

Derived terms

carriériste