Vocation

1. n. A call to special religious work, as to the ministry.
2. n. A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.
3. n. Destined or appropriate employment; calling; occupation; trade; business; profession.
4. n. A calling by the will of God.
5. n. The bestowment of God’s distinguishing grace upon a person or nation, by which that person or nation is put in the way of salvation; as, the vocation of the Jews under the old dispensation, and of the Gentiles under the gospel.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.