Definitions for secular

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secular sec·u·lar

Spelling: [sek-yuh-ler]

IPA: /ˈsɛk yə lər/

Secular is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 277 anagrams from letters in secular (acelrsu).

Definitions for secular

noun

1. a layperson.
2. one of the secular clergy.

adjective

1. of or relating to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal:
2. not pertaining to or connected with religion (opposed to sacred):
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:
6. going on from age to age; continuing through long ages.

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 Examples for secular

He advocates a secular regime with a total separation of religion form the government.

That is what conservative organizations, religious and secular, have done for centuries.

Of course, regarding the secular advantages of the colony, we cannot speak.

A secular police state well practiced in suppressing internal challenges.

Boye was a gifted writer, both on secular and religious themes.

As we have said, India is a land where the secular does not appeal.

It must not, however, be supposed that New England had no secular music.

So here, for your Christmas Eve pleasure, are 20 of my favorites, 10 from the ecclesiastical division and 10 secular.

From the religious (‘The Holly and the Ivy’) to the secular (‘The Chipmunk Song’), my top 20.

Valuable modern and secular books have been added to these collections from time to time.