Layman

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  • noun. One who is not a cleric.
  • noun. One who is a nonprofessional in a given field.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An unprofessional man; a man belonging to the laity or general mass of people, as distinguished from members of the professions of divinity, law, and medicine; specifically, one who does not belong to the clerical profession; more particularly, a church-member who is not a clergyman: also sometimes applied to persons with reference to any other profession or occupation in which they are not expert.
  • noun. Same as lay-figure, 1.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do.
  • noun. A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above).
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy
  • noun. by analogy, someone who is not a professional in a given field
  • noun. a common person
  • noun. a person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject
  • noun. a generally ignorant person
  • noun. lay-sister or lay-brother, person received into a convent of monks, following the vows, but not being member of the order
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
    • Word Usage
    "Probably took hand in more constitutional questions than anybody in history, and you'll find his decisions always had what I call layman's language in part of them, so they'd understand it."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    expert  priest  professional  specialist  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    common man  common person  commoner  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    lay reader  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Daman  Damon  Haman  Lehmann  Philemon  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    artisan  banker  chaplain  churchman  clergy  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    laic  nonprofessional  secular  
    variant
    lay  
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