- not connected with spiritual or religious matters
- secular music
- We live in a largely secular society.
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- (of priests) living among ordinary people rather than in a religious community
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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