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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for October 22, 2026 is: vocation \voh-KAY-shun\ noun See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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It's Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day podcast for October 22. Today's word is vocation, spelled V-O-C-A-T-I-O-N. Vocation is a noun. It can refer simply to an occupation, or it can refer to a strong calling to pursue
a particular kind of work or course of action. Here's the word used in a sentence by Brian Kerechnik from his introduction to troubled waters by Higuchi Ichiyo. Through her education and her father's encouragement, she had nurtured a vocation for literature and was determined to make a career for herself in the Bundan, Japan's literary elite.
When the word vocation was first used in English in the 15th century, It referred specifically to a summons from God to perform a particular task or function in life, especially a religious one. This meaning is no surprise given the words source. It comes from the Latin word meaning summons, which in turn comes from vocare meaning to call. Vocation also has a
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