Look up: avocation


  1. avocation
    [n] - an auxiliary activity
    Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=avocation

  2. Avocation
    Av`o·ca'tion noun [ Latin avocatio .] 1. A calling away; a diversion. [ Obsolete or Archaic] « Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin. South. » 2. That which calls one away from one's regu...
    Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/153

  3. avocation
    1. A calling away; a diversion. 'Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin.' (South) ... 2. That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation. 'Heaven is his vocation, and therefore he counts earthly employments avocations.' (Fuller) 'By the secular cares and avocations wh...
    Found op http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictionary?avocation

  4. avocation
    by-line noun an auxiliary activity
    Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=avocation

  5. Avocation
    • (n.) Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one`s time; usual employment; vocation. • (n.) That which calls one away from one`s regular employment or vocation. • (n.) A calling away; a diversion.
    Found op http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/avocation/

  6. avocation
    avocation 1. A hobby or pastime; not one's work. 2. The opposite of one's career or occupation. 3. Etymology: 'a calling away from one's occupation', from Latin avocationem, 'a calling away'; and Latin avocare, 'to call away'; from ad-, 'away' plus vocare, 'to call'.
    Found op http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2320/

  7. Avocation
    An avocation is an activity that one engages in as a hobby outside one`s main occupation. There are many examples of people whose professions were the ways that they made their livings, but for whom their activities outside of their workplaces were their true passions in life. Occasionally, as with...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocation

  8. avocation
    1) An auxiliary activity 2) By-line 3) Hobby 4) Interest 5) Pastime 6) Pursuit 7) Sideline 8) Spare-time activity
    Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/avocation/1

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