Career

n. [Fr. carrière, It. carriera, race-course, high road, street, Pr. carriera, street, road, properly wagon-way, from Lat. carrus, wagon. See CAR.]

1Sense 1. A race-course: the ground run over.

To go back again the same career. Sidney.

2Sense 2. Rapidity of motion; a race; a course.

When a horse is running in his full career. Wilkins.

3Sense 3. General course of action or movement; course of proceeding; procedure.

Brief, brave, and glorious was his young career. Byron.

An impartial view of his whole career. Macaulay.

4Sense 4. (Falconry.) The flight of a hawk.

[imp. & p. p. CAREERED; p. pr. & vb. n. CAREERING.] To move or run rapidly.

When a ship is decked out in all her canvas, every sail swelled, and careering gaily over the curling waves, how lofty, how gallant she appears! W. Irving.