carrière

See also: carriere, Carriere, and Carrière

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French carrière, from Italian carriera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌkɑ.riˈɛː.rə/

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

Noun

carrière f (plural carrières, diminutive carrièretje n)

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

Synonyms

• loopbaan

Derived terms

• muziekcarrière
• portfoliocarrière

Descendants

• → Indonesian: karier

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ʁjɛʁ/

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Etymology 1

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.

Noun

carrière f (plural carrières)

1. (originally) racecourse
2. career

Derived terms

• carriériste
• faire carrière

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

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.

Noun

carrière f (plural carrières)

1. quarry

Related terms

• carrier
• carré
• carreau
• carrer

Further reading

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