English-Thai Dictionary

celibate

ADJ ที่ ไม่ แต่งงาน และ ไม่มี ความสัมพันธ์ ทางเพศ (โดย เฉพาะบุคคล ทาง ศาสนา  เช่น  พระ  แม่ชี  continent virginal unmarried ti-mai-taeng-ngan-lae-mai-me-kwam-sam-pan-tang-phed

 

celibate

N ผู้ ที่ ไม่ แต่งงาน และ ไม่มี ความสัมพันธ์ ทางเพศ (โดย เฉพาะบุคคล ทาง ศาสนา  เช่น  พระ  แม่ชี  phu-ti-mai-taeng-ngan-lae-mai-me-kwam-sam-pan-tang-phed

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CELIBATE

n.A single life; celibacy; chiefly used when speaking of the single life of the Popish clergy.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

CELIBATE

Cel "i *bate, n. Etym: [L. aelibatus, fr. caelebs unmarried, single. ]

 

1. Celibate state; celibacy. [Obs. ] He. .. preferreth holy celibate before the estate of marrige. Jer. Taylor.

 

2. One who is unmarried, esp. a bachelor, or one bound by vows not to marry.

 

CELIBATE

CELIBATE Cel "i *bate, a.

 

Defn: Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

celibate

cel i bate |ˈseləbət ˈsɛləbət | ▶adjective abstaining from marriage and sexual relations, typically for religious reasons: a celibate priest. • having or involving no sexual relations: I'd rather stay single and celibate. ▶noun a person who abstains from marriage and sexual relations. ORIGIN early 19th cent.: from celibacy, on the pattern of pairs such as magistracy, magistrate .

 

Oxford Dictionary

celibate

celibate |ˈsɛlɪbət | ▶adjective abstaining from marriage and sexual relations, typically for religious reasons: a celibate priest. • having or involving no sexual relations: a celibate lifestyle. ▶noun a person who abstains from marriage and sexual relations. ORIGIN early 19th cent. (earlier (mid 17th cent. ) as celibacy ): from French célibat or Latin caelibatus ‘unmarried state ’ + -ate 2 .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

celibate

celibate adjective an order of celibate brothers: unmarried, single, unwed, spouseless; chaste, virginal, virgin, maidenly, maiden, intact, abstinent, self-denying. USAGE See chaste . Usage notes show additional guidance on finer points of English usage.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

celibate

celibate adjective a celibate priest: unmarried, single, unwed, spouseless, wifeless, husbandless; chaste, virginal, virgin, maidenly, maiden, intact, abstinent, self-denying, self-restrained, ascetic; monkish, monklike, nunnish, nunlike, monastic; rare continent. ANTONYMS married; sexually active.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

celibate

cel i bate /séləbət /形容詞 〈聖職者などが 〉 (特に宗教的な誓いによって )独身 [禁欲 ]主義の ; 〈人が 〉禁欲を守っている .名詞 C 禁欲 [独身 ]主義者 .