1
- denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis尘世的, 世俗的：
secular buildings
世俗建筑
secular attitudes to death.
对死亡的世俗态度。与SACRED相对。
2
- Christian Church (of clergy) not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order【基督教】（神职人员）不受教规约束的; 在俗的。与REGULAR 相对。
3
- Astronomy of or denoting slow changes in the motion of the sun or planets【天文】缓慢的; 长期的。
4
- Economics (of a fluctuation or trend) occurring or persisting over an indefinitely long period【经济】（波动, 趋势）长期性的：
there is evidence that the slump is not cyclical but secular.
有证据表示衰退不是周期性的而是长期性的。
5
- occurring once every century or similarly long period (used especially in reference to celebratory games in ancient Rome)（尤指古罗马的庆祝活动）每世纪一次的; 约百年一次的。
- a secular priest在俗牧师。
派生词
secularism
nounsecularist
nounsecularity
nounsecularization
nounsecularize
（亦作-ise）verbsecularly
adverb词源
Middle English: senses 1 and 2 from Old French seculer, from Latin saecularis, from saeculum 'generation, age', used in Christian Latin to mean 'the world' (as opposed to the Church); senses 3, 4, and 5 （early 19th cent.） from Latin saecularis 'relating to an age or period'.