Secular means not connected with religion. A secular state, secular education, secular music.
A secular state keeps religion out of government, which is not the same as being irreligious — France and India are both secular and both deeply religious societies. In finance, a secular trend is a long-run one lasting decades, which is the older sense of the Latin. Note secularism; and that the Latin saeculum means an age.
1adjectivesecularNot connected with religion.
“Although most people in the country are Catholic, its state schools are secular.”
2adjectivelastingLasting over a very long period.
“Economists argue about whether the fall in interest rates is a secular trend or a short blip.”
secular is a quality of being worldly.
Latin saecularis comes from saeculum, an age or generation. The French siecle, a century, is the same word.
Latin
saeculāris — of the age
Old French
seculer
Middle English
seculer
English, today
secular
From Middle English seculer, from Old French seculer, from Latin saeculāris (“of the age”), from saeculum.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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