{
    "term": "secular",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "not connected with spiritual or religious matters",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "secular music"
                },
                {
                    "text": "We live in a largely secular society."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be"],
                "adverb": ["completely", "entirely", "purely"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "living among ordinary people rather than in a religious community",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsekjələ(r)/",
                "audio": "se/secular/secular__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈsekjələr/",
                "audio": "se/secular/secular__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle 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)."
}