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Learn to pronounce sec·u·lar

/ˈsekyələr/
adjective
  1. denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis.
    "secular buildings"
    synonyms: nonreligious, lay, nonchurch, temporal, worldly, earthly, profane, unsanctified, unconsecrated, unhallowed, laic
  2. (of clergy) not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order.
  3. of or denoting slow changes in the motion of the sun or planets.
  4. (of a fluctuation or trend) occurring or persisting over an indefinitely long period.
    "there is evidence that the slump is not cyclical but secular"
  5. occurring once every century or similarly long period (used especially in reference to celebratory games in ancient Rome).

noun
a secular priest.

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