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Definitions for Secular
[1] of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
[2] not pertaining to or connected with religion (opposed to sacred): secular music.
[3] (of education, a school, etc.) concerned with nonreligious subjects.
[4] (of members of the clergy) not belonging to a religious order; not bound by monastic vows (opposed to regular).
[5] occurring or celebrated once in an age or century: the secular games of Rome.
[6] going on from age to age; continuing through long ages.
[7] a layperson.
[8] one of the secular clergy.
[9] of or relating to worldly as opposed to sacred things; temporal
[10] not concerned with or related to religion
[11] not within the control of the Church
[12] (of an education, etc) having no particular religious affinities not including compulsory religious studies or services
[13] (of clerics) not bound by religious vows to a monastic or other order
[14] occurring or appearing once in an age or century
[15] lasting for a long time
[16] astronomy occurring slowly over a long period of time the secular perturbation of a planet's orbit
[17] a member of the secular clergy
[18] another word for layman
Words related to Secular
civil, materialistic, worldly, temporal, material, lay, profane, earthly, laic, nonreligious
Words nearby Secular
sectionalism, sectionalize, sector, sectoranopia, sectorial, secular, secular humanism, secular tertiaries, secularism, secularity, secularize
Origin of Secular
1250–1300; < Medieval Latin sēculāris, Late Latin saeculāris worldly, temporal (opposed to eternal), Latin: of an age, equivalent to Latin saecul(um ) long period of time + -āris -ar1; replacing Middle English seculer < Old French < Latin, as above
Other words from Secular
sec·u·lar·ly , adverb
non·sec·u·lar , adjective
pre·sec·u·lar , adjective
su·per·sec·u·lar , adjective
su·per·sec·u·lar·ly , adverb
un·sec·u·lar , adjective
un·sec·u·lar·ly , adverb
Word origin for Secular
C13: from Old French seculer, from Late Latin saeculāris temporal, from Latin: concerning an age, from saeculum an age
Synonyms for Secular
civil, materialistic, worldly, lay, material, profane, temporal, earthly, laic, laical, nonclerical, nonreligious, of this world, unsacred