Synonyms for metier

Grammar : Noun

Spell : mey-tyey, mey-tyey

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmeɪ tyeɪ, meɪˈtyeɪ

Définition of metier

Origin : "skill, talent, calling," 1792, from French métier "trade, profession," from Old French mestier "task, affair, service, function, duty," from Gallo-Romance *misterium, from Latin ministerium "office, service," from minister "servant" (see minister (n.)).

noun calling

Example sentences :

No man invents a metier without a strong element of success.
Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever

He was one with his idea and his metier, and that is sufficient.
Extract from : « Adventures in the Arts » by Marsden Hartley

Fighting seemed their metier and most of them preferred it to the monotony of working a mine.
Extract from : « Across the Mesa » by Jarvis Hall

Our metier is not to compare, but to take what pleases us from each.
Extract from : « A Rock in the Baltic » by Robert Barr

It spins to brave music, this peg-top, but its metier is to spin.
Extract from : « In Vanity Fair » by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd

He had the perfect gift of the charlatan, and he had discovered his metier.
Extract from : « The Right of Way, Complete » by Gilbert Parker

Alas, I have been amazingly lazy; it was my metier to look on.
Extract from : « The Grey Room » by Eden Phillpotts

"It wasn't their metier, or the metier of their times," said Miss Virginia with conviction.
Extract from : « A Fool For Love » by Francis Lynde

She has the money and the taste, and with her, even more than with the Parisienne of the beau monde, being charming is a metier.
Extract from : « In Vanity Fair » by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd

He was not ashamed of his metier and allowed no threats nor pleas nor argument to disturb him.
Extract from : « In Vanity Fair » by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd

Antonyms for metier

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