Usually means: Disrespectful or irreverent toward sacred.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word profane:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. profane: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. profane: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. profane: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. profane: Collins English Dictionary
  5. profane: Vocabulary.com
  6. Profane, profane: Wordnik
  7. profane: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. profane: Wiktionary
  9. profane: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. profane: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. profane: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Profane, profane: Dictionary.com
  13. profane (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. profane: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Profane: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Profane: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. profane: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. profane: Rhymezone
  19. profane, profane: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. profane: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. profane: Free Dictionary
  22. profane: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. profane: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. profane: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. profane: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. PROFANE: Masonic Dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  2. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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

(Note: See profaned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
adjective:  Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
adjective:  Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
adjective:  Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain
noun:  A person or thing that is profane.
noun:  (Freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
verb:  (transitive) To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to desecrate
verb:  (transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.

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