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occupation
English
Etymology
From Middle English occupacioun, borrowed from Middle French occupation, from Latin occup?tio.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?kj??pe???n/, /?kj??pe???n/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?kj??pe???n/, /?kj??pe???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
occupation (countable and uncountable, plural occupations)
- An activity or task with which one occupies oneself; usually specifically the productive activity, service, trade, or craft for which one is regularly paid; a job.
- The act, process or state of possessing a place.
- The control of a country or region by a hostile army.
Synonyms
- (activity with which one occupies oneself) employment, interest, line of work, profession, vocation
Translations
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin occup?tio, occup?ti?nem. Synchronically analysable as occuper +? -ation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?.ky.pa.sj??/
Noun
occupation f (plural occupations)
- occupation (the occupying of a territory; something that one spends one's time on, such as a job or a hobby; act of occupying, of being an occupant)
Related terms
- occuper
Further reading
- “occupation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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chore
English
Etymology 1
From earlier char, from Middle English charr, charre, cherre (“odd job, turn, occasion, business”), from Old English ?err, ?ierr (“a turn”), from ?ierran (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *karzijan? (“to turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *gers- (“to bend, turn”).
Cognate with Dutch keer (“time; turn; occasion”), German Kehre (“a turn; bend; wind; back-flip; u-turn”). Also related to Saterland Frisian kiere, käire (“to turn”), Old Saxon k?rian, Old High German ch?ran (“to turn”) (German kehren (“to turn”), Dutch keren (“to turn”)). See also char.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chô, IPA(key): /t???/
- (General American) enPR: chôr, IPA(key): /t???/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ch?r, IPA(key): /t?o(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /t?o?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
chore (plural chores)
- A task, especially a difficult, unpleasant, or routine one.
Derived terms
- choreful
- choreless
- chorelike
- choresome
- chore wheel
Translations
Verb
chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)
- (US, dated) To do chores.
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “chore”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Etymology 2
Possibly derived from Romani ?or (“thief”), see also Geordie word chor.
Alternative forms
- chor (Geordie)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: chô, IPA(key): /t???/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ch?r, IPA(key): /t?o(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /t?o?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Verb
chore (third-person singular simple present chores, present participle choring, simple past and past participle chored)
- (Britain, informal) To steal.
Synonyms
- steal (standard English)
- thieve (standard English)
- twoc (Geordie)
Etymology 3
Noun
chore (plural chores)
- (obsolete) A choir or chorus.
- 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwood
- On every wall, and sung where e'er I walk. I number these, as being of the chore
- 1640, Ben Jonson, Underwood
Anagrams
- Roche, ocher, ochre, roche
Latin
Noun
chore
- vocative singular of chorus
Lower Sorbian
Adjective
chore
- Superseded spelling of chóre.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?x?.r?/
Adjective
chore
- inflection of chory:
- neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
- nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural
Portuguese
Verb
chore
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of chorar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of chorar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of chorar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of chorar
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