[ˈsɛkjʊlə], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- not connected with religious or spiritual matters
(e.g: secular buildings)

- (of clergy) not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order

- of or denoting slow changes in the motion of the sun or planets

- (of a fluctuation or trend) occurring or persisting over an indefinitely long period
(e.g: there is evidence that the slump is not cyclical but secular)

- occurring once every century or similarly long period (used especially in reference to celebratory games in ancient Rome)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English: secular secular from Old French seculer, from Latin saecularis, from saeculum ‘generation, age’, used in Christian Latin to mean ‘the world’ (as opposed to the Church); secular, secular, secular (early 19th century) from Latin saecularis ‘relating to an age or period’

[ˈsɛkjʊlə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a secular priest


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English: secular secular from Old French seculer, from Latin saecularis, from saeculum ‘generation, age’, used in Christian Latin to mean ‘the world’ (as opposed to the Church); secular, secular, secular (early 19th century) from Latin saecularis ‘relating to an age or period’