S vs Celibate - What's the difference?
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The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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Not married.
(by extension) Abstaining from sexual relations and pleasures.
One who is not married, especially one who has taken a religious vow not to get married, usually because of being a member of a religious community.
(obsolete) A celibate state; celibacy.
* Jeremy Taylor
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As an adjective celibate is
not married.As a noun celibate is
one who is not married, especially one who has taken a religious vow not to get married, usually because of being a member of a religious community.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}celibate
English
Alternative forms
*Adjective
(-)- ''Members of religious communities sometimes take vows to remain celibate .
Synonyms
* (not married) unmarried, single * (abstaining from sex) abstinent, chaste, pureDerived terms
* celibatelyNoun
(en noun)- He preferreth holy celibate before the estate of marrige.