SECULAR
Dictionary entry overview: What does secular mean?
• SECULAR (noun)
The noun SECULAR has 1 sense:
1. someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
Familiarity information: SECULAR used as a noun is very rare.
• SECULAR (adjective)
The adjective SECULAR has 1 sense:
1. concerning those not members of the clergy
Familiarity information: SECULAR used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SECULAR (noun)
Meaning:
Someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
layman; layperson; secular
Hypernyms ("secular" is a kind of...):
common man; common person; commoner (a person who holds no title)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "secular"):
lay reader (a layman who is authorized by the bishop to read parts of the service in an Anglican or Episcopal church)
Holonyms ("secular" is a member of...):
laity; temporalty (in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy)
• SECULAR (adjective)
Meaning:
Concerning those not members of the clergy
Synonyms:
laic; lay; secular
Context examples:
set his collar in laic rather than clerical position / the lay ministry / the choir sings both sacred and secular music
Similar:
profane (not sacred or concerned with religion)
