celibate

Meaning of celibate

adjective
  1. abstaining from marriage and sexual relations, typically for religious reasons.
    a celibate priest
noun
  1. a person who abstains from marriage and sexual relations.
    he's attracted and attractive to women and yet he lives as a celibate

early 19th century (earlier (mid 17th century) as celibacy ): from French célibat or Latin caelibatus ‘unmarried state’ + -ate2.

Information about celibate

  • The plural form of celibate is: celibates.
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Hyphenation of celibate

celi-bate

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • celibate is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

celibate synonyms

Meaning continent:

continent

Anagrams of celibate

Calebite, calebite, citeable

Words that rhyme with celibate

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