métier

Borrowed from French métier. Doublet of mister (“employment, trade”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛtjeɪ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /meɪˈtjeɪ/

métier (plural métiers)

1. Any activity that is pursued as a trade or profession; a calling.
2. An activity to which a person is particularly suited.

   Synonyms: forte; see also Thesaurus:forte

3. An outstanding or beneficial feature.

• reemit, retime, reëmit, tremie

Inherited from Old French mestier, inherited from Vulgar Latin *misterium, a conflation of mystērium (whence French mystère) and ministerium (whence French ministère). Compare Portuguese mister, also mester, Italian mestiere, Spanish and Catalan menester.

• IPA^(key): /me.tje/

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métier m (plural métiers)

1. job, profession, trade
2. skill, craft
3. (textiles) machine, device, loom
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […]‎^[1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:

     On avait brodé cela sur quelque métier de palissandre, meuble mignon que l'on cachait à tous les yeux, qui avait occupé bien des heures et où s'étaient penchées les boucles molles de la travailleuse pensive.

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• (informal) boulot, job
• emploi, travail

• → English: métier
• → German: Metier

• “métier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• ermite, mérite, mérité