Definition of Celibate

Celibate

Celibate state; celibacy.

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

Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state.

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Celibate Quotations

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Carl Sagan

I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
Paris Hilton

That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.
Steven Morrissey

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
Jeremy Taylor

And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left.
Thomas Keneally

He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purity of his instrument, but my instrument needed tuning, and we had to split.
Mimi Rogers

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Celibate Translations

celibate in German is Unverheiratete
celibate in Swedish is ogift

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