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.

 

CELIBATIST

CELIBATIST Ce *lib "a *tist, n.

 

Defn: One who lives unmarried. [R.]

 

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.

 

French Dictionary

célibat

célibat n. m. nom masculin État d ’une personne non mariée. Note Orthographique céliba t.

 

célibataire

célibataire adj. et n. m. et f. adjectif et nom masculin et féminin Non marié.

 

Spanish Dictionary

celibato

celibato nombre masculino Estado de la persona que no se ha casado, especialmente por motivos religiosos :el celibato sacerdotal .

 

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 .