secular

Meaning

Adj

1. Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical; profane.
2. Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
3. Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
4. Happening once in an age or century.
5. Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
6. (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
7. Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
8. Unperturbed over time.

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.

Synonyms

worldly

temporal

lay

mundane

profane

laic

earthly

layman

layperson

irreligious

nonreligious

civil

age-old

secularized

sublunar

sublunary

terrestrial

unconsecrated

unreligious

vulgar

wordly

century-old

worldy

laicistic

laicist

ancient

carnal

century

common

cosmic

epochal

lifelong

material

open

ordinary

popular

secularistic

Translations

secular

secolare

secular

weltlich

säkular

séculier

séculaire

profane

laïc

laïque

laico

laico

seglar

seculier

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsɛkjʊlə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: seculer

In summary

From Middle English seculer, from Old French seculer, from Latin saeculāris (“of the age”), from saeculum.