celibate
Meaning of celibate
adjective
- abstaining from marriage and sexual relations, typically for religious reasons.
a celibate priest
- a person who abstains from marriage and sexual relations.
he's attracted and attractive to women and yet he lives as a celibate
early 19th century (earlier (mid 17th century) as celibacy ): from French célibat or Latin caelibatus ‘unmarried state’ + -ate2.
Information about celibate
- The plural form of celibate is: celibates.
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Hyphenation of celibate
celi-bate
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- celibate is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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Words that rhyme with celibate
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