secular
playWhat It Means
Secular means "not spiritual or religious."
// In her autobiography, the actor mentions that her education in parochial school was not too different from that of secular institutions.
secular in Context
"The biggest change from Halloween's earliest roots is that it became more secular than religious." — The South Marion (Florida) Citizen, 29 Oct. 2021
Did You Know?
Secular comes from Latin saeculum, meaning variously "generation," "age," "century," and "world." Today, secular is used to describe things that are related to the physical rather than the spiritual world, and to things that are not overtly or specifically religious or that are controlled by the government rather than the church.
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