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English
Etymology
From Middle English seculer, from Old French seculer, from Latin saeculāris (“of the age”), from saeculum.
Pronunciation
Adjective
secular (comparative more secular, superlative most secular)
- Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
- Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
- (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
secular clergy in Catholicism
- 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.
- 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.
on a secular basis
- (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
1899 April, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MII, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, , →OCLC, part III (Conclusion):The long reaches that were like one and the same reach, monotonous bends that were exactly alike, slipped past the steamer with their multitude of secular trees looking patiently after this grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings.
- (astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
2003, E. T. Jaynes, Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, Cambridge University Press, pages 234–235:Laplace (1749–1827) "saved the world" by using probability theory to estimate the parameters accurately enough to show that the drift of Jupiter was not secular after all; the observations at hand had covered only a fraction of a cycle of an oscillation with a period of about 880 years.
- (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
- 2000, S. A. Dikanov, Two-dimensional ESEEM Spectroscopy, in New Advances in Analytical Chemistry (Atta-ur-Rahman, ed.), page 539
- The secular A and nonsecular B parts of hyperfine interaction for any particular frequencies να and νβ are derived from eqn.(21) by ...
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not specifically religious
- Albanian: laik (sq)
- Arabic: دُنْيَوِيّ (dunyawiyy), عَلْمَانِيّ (ʕalmāniyy)
- Armenian: աշխարհիկ (hy) (ašxarhik)
- Azerbaijani: dünyəvi
- Belarusian: све́цкі (svjécki)
- Bulgarian: све́тски (bg) (svétski), ми́рски (bg) (mírski)
- Catalan: secular (ca), laic (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 世俗 (zh) (shìsú), 凡 (zh) (fán), 塵俗/尘俗 (zh) (chénsú), 非宗教 (zh) (fēizōngjiāo)
- Czech: světský (cs)
- Danish: verdslig (da), sekulær (da)
- Dutch: seculier (nl), wereldlijk (nl)
- Esperanto: sekulara
- Finnish: maallinen (fi)
- French: séculier (fr), laïque (fr), mondain (fr)
- Galician: secular (gl)
- Georgian: სეკულარული (seḳularuli)
- German: säkular (de), weltlich (de)
- Greek: κοσμικός (el) m (kosmikós)
- Ancient: ἄθεος (átheos)
- Hebrew: חול \ חֹל (he) (ḥoll), חִלּוֹנִי (he) m (khiloni)
- Hindi: पन्थनिरपेक्ष (panthanirpekṣ)
- Hungarian: világi (hu)
- Icelandic: veraldlegur (is)
- Indonesian: sekuler (id)
- Irish: saolta, tuata
- Italian: secolare (it), laico (it)
- Japanese: 世俗的な (ja) (せぞくてきな, sezokuteki na), 世俗の (ja) (せぞくの, sezoku no), 非宗教的な (ひしゅうきょうてきな, hishūkyōteki na)
- Kazakh: дүниелік (dünielık), дүнияуи (düniäui), зайырлы (zaiyrly)
- Korean: 세속적(世俗的) (sesokjeok)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: sekuler (ku)
- Kyrgyz: дүйнөлүк (ky) (düynölük)
- Lao: ທາງໂລກ (thāng lōk)
- Latin: profānus
- Macedonian: светски (svetski)
- Malay: sekular
- Malayalam: മതേതര (ml) (matētara)
- Maori: whakawhenua, hāhikore
- Norman: sétchulyi (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: sekulær (no)
- Ottoman Turkish: دنیوی (dünyevi)
- Persian: دنیوی (fa) (donyavi), سکولار (sekulâr)
- Polish: świecki (pl), laicki (pl)
- Portuguese: secular (pt), laico (pt)
- Romanian: laic (ro), secular (ro)
- Russian: све́тский (ru) (svétskij), мирско́й (ru) (mirskój), секуля́рный (ru) (sekuljárnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: saoghalta
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: светован, свјетован
- Roman: svetovan (sh), svjetovan
- Slovak: svetský
- Slovene: posveten, sekularen
- Spanish: seglar (es), laico (es), mundano (es), secular (es)
- Swedish: sekulär (sv), världslig (sv)
- Tagalog: banwahanin
- Tajik: ғайридинӣ (ġayridini), дунявӣ (dunyavi)
- Thai: ทางโลก (taang-lôok)
- Turkish: seküler (tr), dünyevi (tr)
- Turkmen: dünýewi
- Ukrainian: сві́тський (svítsʹkyj), мирськи́й (myrsʹkýj)
- Urdu: دُنیاوی (duniyāvī)
- Uzbek: dunyoviy (uz)
- Vietnamese: thế tục (vi)
- Yiddish: סעקולער (sekuler)
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not bound by the vows of a monastic order
happening once in an age or century
astrophysics: of or pertaining to long-term non-periodic irregularities
atomic physics: unperturbed over time
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Noun
secular (plural seculars)
- A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. , London: J Dodsley, , →OCLC:On further examination, I found the clergy, in general, persons of moderate minds and decorous manners : I include the seculars, and the regulars of both sexes
- A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.[1]
- A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
Translations
secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules
church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir
layman, as distinguished from a clergyman
References
- ^ 1817, Thomas Busby, A Dictionary of Music, Theoretical and Practical
- “secular”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- secular in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “secular”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Webster's English Dictionary
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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin saeculāris.
Pronunciation
Adjective
secular m or f (masculine and feminine plural seculars)
- secular
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Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin saeculāris.
Pronunciation
Adjective
secular m or f (plural seculares)
- secular
Derived terms
Further reading
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French séculaire, from Latin saecularis.
Adjective
secular m or n (feminine singular seculară, masculine plural seculari, feminine and neuter plural seculare)
- secular
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin saeculāris. Doublet of seglar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sekuˈlaɾ/
- Rhymes: -aɾ
- Syllabification: se‧cu‧lar
Adjective
secular m or f (masculine and feminine plural seculares)
- secular
Derived terms
Further reading