What does secular mean?

Question

As in a secular state? I have no idea.

Answer 1

Not run by religion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular

Answer 2

dogmatic, blasphemous, non-religious

Answer 3

Worldly, non-religious or dogmatic.

Answer 4

sec·u·lar  

sec·u·lar [sékyələr]

adj

1.  not concerned with religion: not controlled by a religious body or concerned with religious or spiritual matters

secular education

2.  not religious: not religious or spiritual in nature

secular music

3.  not monastic: not belonging to a monastic order

secular clergy

4.  occurring once in century: occurring only once in the course of an age or century

a secular change

5.  astronomy geology occurring over long period: taking place over an extremely or indefinitely long period of time  

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Answer 5

It means: not bound by religion.

Answer 6

   1.  Worldly rather than spiritual.

   2. Not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body: secular music.

   3. Relating to or advocating secularism.

   4. Not bound by monastic restrictions, especially not belonging to a religious order. Used of the clergy.

   5. Occurring or observed once in an age or century.

   6. Lasting from century to century.