Secular Meaning and Definition


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Secular meaning

Word: Secular

How to pronounce: ˈsekjʊlə

Adjective

Definitions:

1. Denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.

Example sentences: "Secular buildings"

2. (of clergy) not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order.

Example sentences: "The rate of recruitment is probably better than that of the secular clergy, but this may be because a large percentage of the monks do not go on to priesthood."

3. Of or denoting slow changes in the motion of the sun or planets.

4. (of a fluctuation or trend) occurring or persisting over an indefinitely long period.

Example sentences: "There is evidence that the slump is not cyclical but secular"

5. Occurring once every century or similarly long period (used especially in reference to celebratory games in ancient Rome).

Noun

Definitions:

1. A secular priest.

Example sentences: "Most priests were seculars, living in the world and working amongst ordinary people."


Synonyms:

worldly

mundane

genteel

laity

social

society

layman

layperson

temporal

laic

profane

century

centenarians

nonreligious

lay

centuriesold


Antonyms:

religious

spiritual

church


Derivations:

secularist

secularism

secularization

secularize

secularise

secularly

secularized

secularised


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Secular in Other Languages...

Spanish: Secular

German: Weltlich

French: Laïque

Italian: Secolare

Turkish: Laik


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