secularise

Questions about secularise

What does secularise mean?

secularise means "make secular and draw away from a religious orientation".

How many syllables are in secularise?

secularise has 4 syllables and divides as se-cu-la-rise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for secularise?

Close synonyms include secularize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is secularise a common word?

secularise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.