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# secular

adjective

«secular» in the English dictionary: in Wikipedia — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## In Wikipedia

Source: the Wikipedia dictionary, from the English Wikipedia articles Mova reads whole. Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). A draft: made natively by Nautilus, one of Mova's workers, from Mova's own counts; not reviewed. Not part of Mova: never in its repository, releases or programs.

### Counted by Mova

66 uses in 36 of the 531 articles of the Wikipedia school's corpus; as an adjective in 66 of 66. By the class of the article: country 20, city 9, other 4, agglomeration 2. Most often with: «state», «religious», «religion», «century», «constitution».

### Examples

- The Awami Muslim League was renamed as a more "secular" Awami League in 1953. — [Bangladesh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh), sentence 61 («wiki:Bangladesh:61»)
- At the same time, Quebec underwent profound social and economic changes through the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, giving birth to a secular nationalist movement. — [Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada), sentence 118 («wiki:Canada:118»)
- The constitution provides for a secular state and guarantees religious freedom; different religious communities generally co-exist without problems. — [Chad](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad), sentence 246 («wiki:Chad:246»)

### Note

Draft: made natively by Nautilus from the Wikipedia school's corpus; the counts and examples are Mova's own, the meaning is the pupils' dictionary's; no sense of this source is written yet.

### Sources

- From Wikipedia, [«Bangladesh»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Canada»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- From Wikipedia, [«Chad»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
- Examples quote Wikipedia; this block is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.