carrière

See also: carriere and Carrière

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French carrière.

Pronunciation

carrière (file)
Hyphenation: car‧ri‧è‧re

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/
audio (file)

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Occitan carreira or Italian carriera, itself from Old Occitan, from Late Latin (via) carrāria, from Latin carrus. Compare the inherited doublet charrière.

Noun

carrière f (plural carrières)

(originally) racecourse
career

Derived terms

carriériste

Etymology 2

From Old French quarrière, from Vulgar Latin *quadrāria, from Latin quadrō (“I make four-corned, square; cut into a square”), quadrus. Compare carreau. Compare also English quarry.

Noun

carrière f (plural carrières)

quarry

Related terms

Further reading

“carrière” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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