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Definition of secular adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

secular

adjective
 
 
/ˈsekjələ(r)/
 
/ˈsekjələr/
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  1.  
    not connected with spiritual or religious matters
    • secular music
    • We live in a largely secular society.
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    • be
    adverb
    • completely
    • entirely
    • purely
    • …
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  2. (of priests) living among ordinary people rather than in a religious community
    3. Word OriginMiddle English from Old French seculer, from Latin saecularis, from saeculum ‘generation, age’, used in Christian Latin to mean ‘the world’ (as opposed to the Church).
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