not connected with spiritual or religious matters 现世的;世俗的;非宗教的 secular music 世俗音乐 We live in a largely secular society. 我们生活在一个主流世俗化的社会里。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
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(of priests )司祭 living among ordinary people rather than in a religious community 教区的;在俗的
Word OriginMiddle English from Old French seculer, from Latin saecularis, from saeculum ‘generation, age’, used in Christian Latin to mean ‘the world’ (as opposed to the Church).