séculier
French, adjective/se.ky.lje/
séculier is spelled S-É-C-U-L-I-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 43,335th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Séculier is a French adjective meaning “secular (not specifically religious)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui vit dans le siècle, en parlant des ecclésiastiques”.
What does séculier mean in English?
adjective
- 1
secular (not specifically religious)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui vit dans le siècle, en parlant des ecclésiastiques. 2. Temporel, laïque. 3. Mondain. 4. Qualifiait le notaire qui n’était établi que pour recevoir les actes en matière temporelle, et qui ne pouvait recevoir les actes concernant les bénéfices et autres matières ecclésiastiques.
noun: 1. Prêtre qui vit et officie dans la société.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of séculier
- séculière feminine
- séculiers masculine plural
- séculières feminine plural
- sæculier alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce séculier?
- /se.ky.lje/
- \se.ky.lje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to séculier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is séculier in French?
séculier appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).