noun title; appellation; name.
2. calling ·noun a summoning or convocation, as of parliament.
3. calling ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of call.
4. calling ·noun one's usual occupation, or employment; vocation; business; trade.
5. calling ·noun a divine summons or invitation; also, the state of being divinely called.
6. calling ·noun the persons, collectively, engaged in any particular professions or employment.
7. calling ·noun the act of one who calls; a crying aloud, ·esp. in order to summon, or to attact the attention of, some one.
8. calling ·noun a naming, or inviting; a reading over or reciting in order, or a call of names with a view to obtaining an answer, as in legislative bodies.