Usually means: Not connected to religious matters.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word secular:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. secular: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. secular: Merriam-Webster
  3. secular: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. secular: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. secular: Collins English Dictionary
  6. secular: Vocabulary.com
  7. Secular, secular: Wordnik
  8. secular: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. secular: Wiktionary
  10. secular: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. secular: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. secular: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. secular: Dictionary.com
  14. secular: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. secular: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Secular (disambiguation), Secular: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Secular: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. secular: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. secular: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. secular: FreeDictionary.org
  21. secular: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. secular: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. secular: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  24. secular: Rhymezone

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Secular: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. secular: Glossary of research economics
  5. Secular: Investopedia
  6. secular: Legal dictionary
  7. Secular: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. secular: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. secular: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. secular: Wordcraft Dictionary
  3. Political (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Earthquake Image Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Secular: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. secular: Anthropological Terms
  4. SECULAR: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. secular: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See secularity as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical; profane.
adjective:  Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
adjective:  (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
adjective:  Happening once in an age or century.
adjective:  Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
adjective:  (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
adjective:  (astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
adjective:  (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
noun:  A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
noun:  A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
noun:  A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
noun:  A surname.

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