secular

Meaning of secular

noun
  1. A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
  2. A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
  3. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
adjective
  1. Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
  2. Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
  3. Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
    secular clergy in Catholicism
  4. Happening once in an age or century.
    The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.
  5. Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
    The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.
  6. Centuries-old, ancient.
  7. Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
  8. (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.

Information about secular

Hyphenation of secular

sec-u-lar

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 7 chars.
  • secular is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

secular synonyms

Meaning laic:

laic, lay

Meaning layman:

layman, layperson

Meaning :

worldly

secular antonyms

Meaning :

cyclical, monastic, regular, music, sacred, religious, eternal, everlasting, frequent, nonsecular, unpredictable

Translation of secular

Anagrams of secular

cesural, Rescula, reclusa, recusal

Words that rhyme with secular

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