Pastime vs Avocation - What's the difference?
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That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion; games.
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*:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
(obsolete) to sport; to amuse oneself
(obsolete) A calling away; a diversion.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 204:
A hobby or recreational or leisure pursuit.
* 1934 , Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time
*:But yield who will to their separation,
*:My object in living is to unite
*:My avocation and my vocation
*:As my two eyes make one in sight.
That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.
Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.
Avocation is a synonym of pastime.
As nouns the difference between pastime and avocation
is that pastime is that which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion; games while avocation is a calling away; a diversion.As a verb pastime
is to sport; to amuse oneself.pastime
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(wikipedia pastime)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* amusement * diversion * hobby * sportExternal links
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Derived terms
* pastimer * pastimingAnagrams
*avocation
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(wikipedia avocation)Noun
(en noun)- But though she could neither sleep nor rest in her bed, yet, having no avocation from it, she was found there by her father at his return from Allworthy's, which was not till past ten o'clock in the morning.