Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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secular

UK /ˈsɛkjʊlə/ · US /ˈsɛkjələɹ/ adjective, noun, proper noun

Forms seculars sæcular

  1. adjective Not specifically religious; lay or civil, as opposed to clerical.
  2. adjective Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
  3. adjective (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a religious order. “secular clergy in Catholicism”
  4. adjective Happening once in an age or century. “The secular games of ancient Rome were held to mark the end of a saeculum and the beginning of the next.”
  5. adjective Continuing over a long period of time. “The long-term growth in population and income accounts for most secular trends in economic phenomena.”
  6. adjective (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
  7. adjective (astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion or magnetic field.
  8. adjective (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
  9. noun A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
  10. noun A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
  11. noun A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.
  12. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

areligious temporal worldly chronological nonmonastic centurial centennial long-term nonsecular plurisecular multisecular civil earthly irreligious laicist laicistic mundane nonreligious profane unconsecrated layman layperson laic lay

Antonyms

nonsecular religious sacred monastic regular short-term cyclical eternal everlasting frequent unpredictable non-recurring

Etymology

From Middle English seculer, from Old French seculer, from Latin saeculāris (“of the age”), from saeculum.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Coming or observed once in an age or a century.
  2. adjective Pertaining to an age, or the progress of ages, or to a long period of time; accomplished in a long progress of time; as, secular inequality; the secular refrigeration of the globe.
  3. noun A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
  4. noun A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir. Busby.

Etymology [OE. secular, seculer. L. saecularis, fr. saeculum a race, generation, age, the times, the world; perhaps akin to E. soul: cf. F. séculier.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “secular”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “secular” (best matches first).