secular
adjective /ˈsekjələ(r)/
/ˈsekjələr/
- not connected with spiritual or religious matters
- secular music
- We live in a largely secular society.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- completely
- entirely
- purely
- …
- (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).