carrière

Borrowed from French carrière.

• carrière

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• Hyphenation: car‧ri‧è‧re

carrière f (plural carrières, diminutive carrièretje n)

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

• (occupations) loopbaan
• (calling) roeping

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁjɛʁ/

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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.

carrière f (plural carrières)

1. (originally) racecourse
2. career

• carriériste

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.

carrière f (plural carrières)

1. quarry

• carrier
• carré
• carreau
• carrer

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