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   secular

   /ˈsɛkjʊlə/

   adjective

   • 1. not connected with religious or spiritual matters: "secular buildings"
   • 2. (of clergy) not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order.
   • 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: "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

   • 1. a secular priest.

   Word Origin Middle English: secular (sense 1 of the adjective, sense 2 of the adjective) from Old French seculer, from Latin saecularis, from saeculum ‘generation, age’, used in Christian Latin to mean ‘the world’ (as opposed to the Church); secular (sense 3 of the adjective, sense 4 of the adjective, sense 5 of the adjective) (early 19th century) from Latin saecularis ‘relating to an age or period’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. secularity noun
   • 2. secularly adverb

   Scrabble Points: 9

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2. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishMeaning of secular in English - Cambridge Dictionary

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   SECULAR definition: 1. not having any connection with religion: 2. not having any connection with religion: 3. not…. Learn more.

3. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › dictionarySECULAR | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

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4. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › learner-englishMeaning of secular – Learner’s Dictionary - Cambridge Dictionary

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   SECULAR definition: not religious or not controlled by a religious group: . Learn more.

5. dictionary.cambridge.org › example › englishSECULAR DECLINE collocation | meaning and examples of use

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   Examples of SECULAR DECLINE in a sentence, how to use it. 19 examples: The first, comprising women born between 1920 and 1935, showed no secular decline in menarcheal age…

6. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › dictionarySECULAR | definition in the Cambridge Learner’s Dictionary

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   SECULAR meaning: not religious or not controlled by a religious group: . Learn more.

7. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishMeaning of secularism in English - Cambridge Dictionary

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   SECULARISM definition: 1. the belief that religion should not be involved with the ordinary social and political…. Learn more.

8. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishMeaning of secularist in English - Cambridge Dictionary

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   SECULARIST definition: 1. someone who believes that religion should not be involved with the ordinary social and political…. Learn more.

9. dictionary.cambridge.org › zhs › 词典SECULAR中文 (简体)翻译：剑桥词典 - Cambridge Dictionary

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   SECULAR翻译：世俗的；非宗教的。了解更多。

10. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishMeaning of secularly in English - Cambridge Dictionary

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    SECULARLY definition: 1. in a way that does not have any connection with religion: 2. in a way that does not have any…. Learn more.

11. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › pronunciationHow to pronounce SECULAR in English - Cambridge Dictionary

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    How to pronounce SECULAR. How to say SECULAR. Listen to the audio pronunciation in the Cambridge English Dictionary. Learn more.