carrière

Borrowed from French carrière, from Italian carriera.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑ.riˈɛː.rə/

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• Hyphenation: car‧ri‧è‧re
• Rhymes: -ɛːrə

carrière f (plural carrières, diminutive carrièretje n)

1. career, a person's occupation(s)

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• → Indonesian: karier

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁjɛʁ/

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Inherited from Middle French carriere. Borrowed from Old Occitan carreira or Italian carriera, itself from Old Occitan, from Late Latin (via) carrāria, from Latin carrus. Compare the inherited doublet charrière.

carrière f (plural carrières)

1. (originally) racecourse
2. career

• carriériste
• faire carrière

• → Turkish: kariyer
• → Ukrainian: кар'єр (karʺjer)

Inherited from Old French quarrière, from Vulgar Latin *quadrāria, from Latin quadrāre (“to make four-corned, square; cut into a square”), from quadrus. Compare carreau. Compare also English quarry.

carrière f (plural carrières)

1. quarry

• carrier
• carré
• carreau
• carrer

• “carrière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.