Bible Dictionaries
Calling

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Call

(2):

(n.) The persons, collectively, engaged in any particular professions or employment.

(3):

(n.) Title; appellation; name.

(4):

(n.) One's usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade.

(5):

(n.) A naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in legislative bodies.

(6):

(n.) A divine summons or invitation; also, the state of being divinely called.

(7):

(n.) A summoning or convocation, as of Parliament.

(8):

(n.) The act of one who calls; a crying aloud, esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Calling'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​c/calling.html. 1828.