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7-letter words (3 found)

CESURAL,RECUSAL,SECULAR,

6-letter words (19 found)

ALURES,CARLES,CAULES,CAUSER,CESURA,CLAUSE,CLEARS,CRUELS,CURSAL,LACERS,LUCRES,RAUCLE,RECALS,SAUCER,SAUREL,SCALER,SCLERA,SECULA,ULCERS,

5-letter words (55 found)

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4-letter words (73 found)

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3-letter words (47 found)

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2-letter words (12 found)

AE,AL,AR,AS,EA,EL,ER,ES,LA,RE,UR,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 210 words from secular according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of secular

secular

Alternative forms

  • sæcular (archaic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsɛkjʊlə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈsɛkjələɹ/

Adjective

secular (comparative more secular, superlative most secular)

  1. Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
  2. Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
  3. (Christianity) 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.
    • 2005, Alpha Chiang and Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics (4th ed.), McGraw-Hill International, p. 501
      In this event, the s ϕ ( k ) {\displaystyle s\phi (k)} curve in Fig. 15.5 will be subject to a secular upward shift, resulting in successively higher intersections with the λ k {\displaystyle \lambda k} ray and also in larger values of k ¯ {\displaystyle {\bar {k}}} .
  6. (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
  7. (astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
  8. (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 ...

Synonyms

  • (not religious): worldly
  • (centuries old): plurisecular, multisecular

Antonyms

  • nonsecular
  • (antonym(s) of "not religious"): religious
  • (antonym(s) of "not religious"): sacred (used especially of music)
  • (antonym(s) of "not bound by monastic vows"): monastic
  • (antonym(s) of "not bound by monastic vows"): regular (as regular clergy in Catholicism)
  • eternal, everlasting
  • frequent
  • unpredictable
  • non-recurring
  • (antonym(s) of "finance"): short-term
  • (antonym(s) of "finance"): cyclical

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

secular (plural seculars)

  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.

Translations

References

  • “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

Anagrams

  • Clauser, cesural, recusal

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saeculāris.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [sə.kuˈlar]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [sə.kuˈla]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [se.kuˈlaɾ]

Adjective

secular m or f (masculine and feminine plural seculars)

  1. secular

Derived terms

  • secularitzar
  • secularment

Further reading

  • “secular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “secular”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “secular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “secular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saeculāris.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: se‧cu‧lar

Adjective

secular m or f (plural seculares)

  1. secular

Derived terms

  • secularizar
  • secularmente

Further reading

  • “secular” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

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)

  1. secular

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin saeculāris. Doublet of seglar.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sekuˈlaɾ/ [se.kuˈlaɾ]
  • Rhymes: -aɾ
  • Syllabification: se‧cu‧lar

Adjective

secular m or f (masculine and feminine plural seculares)

  1. secular

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “secular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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