Vocation(n.) A call; a summons; a citation; especially, a designation or appointment to a particular state, business, or profession.
Vocation(n.) Destined or appropriate employment; calling; occupation; trade; business; profession.
Vocation(n.) A calling by the will of God.
Vocation(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.
Vocation(n.) A call to special religious work, as to the ministry.
Vocative(a.) Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling; specifically (Gram.), used in address; appellative; -- said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed; as, Domine, O Lord.
Vocative(n.) The vocative case.
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