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Avocation meaning
A calling away; a diversion. | A hobby or recreational or leisure pursuit. | That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.
Example sentences (6)
Capturing the perfect image is just part of her larger avocation of seeking out the many shades of beauty and strangeness cast by the world.
Nadia Darries is a director, animator and co-founder of Goon Valley Animation, with an avocation for songwriting.
Londres’s phrase captured a key reality: Cycling had long been the vocation and avocation of working-class Frenchmen.
Always willing to learn new things, Myrtle Edna embraced Jim’s birding avocation in their retirement years and became knowledgeable and enthusiastic about birds as they traveled the world together.
Finally, the local boys in GLOE call themselves “post-everything mathgaze,” Although they haven’t put out any new videos in a while, their 2015 jam “Professional Avocation” is well worth repeated listens.
This was the catalogue of words organized by their meanings, the compilation of which had been an avocation since 1805.