SPIRITUAL


Meaning of SPIRITUAL in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ spɪrɪtʃuəl ]

( spirituals)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

Spiritual means relating to people’s thoughts and beliefs, rather than to their bodies and physical surroundings.

She lived entirely by spiritual values, in a world of poetry and imagination.

≠ temporal

ADJ

• spir‧itu‧al‧ly

Our whole programme is spiritually oriented but not religious.

ADV

• spir‧itu‧al‧ity

...the peaceful spirituality of Japanese culture.

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2.

Spiritual means relating to people’s religious beliefs.

The spiritual leader of Ireland’s 3.7 million Catholics...

= religious

≠ secular

ADJ

3.

A spiritual is a religious song of the type originally sung by black slaves in America.

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