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noun an unmarried person who has taken a religious vow of chastity
adjective abstaining from sexual intercourse
originFrom French célibat (“celibacy”), from Latin caelibātus (“celibacy”), from caelebs (“unmarried”); compare German Zölibat (“celibacy”). Equivalent to Latin caelebs + -ate (forming nouns denoting a rank, a state)
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0