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layman
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun layman has 1 sense
- layman(n = noun.person) layperson, secular - someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person; Array is a member of laity, temporalty
is a kind of common man, common person, commoner
has particulars: lay reader
Antonym: clergyman
CIDE DICTIONARY
layman, n. [Lay, adj. + man.].
- 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. [1913 Webster]"Being a layman, I ought not to have concerned myself with speculations which belong to the profession." [1913 Webster]
- A lay figure. See under Lay,
n. (above). Dryden [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
layman, n. (pl. -men; fem. laywoman, pl. -women)
1 any non-ordained member of a Church.
2 a person without professional or specialized knowledge in a particular subject.
1 any non-ordained member of a Church.
2 a person without professional or specialized knowledge in a particular subject.
ROGET THESAURUS
layman
Laity
N laity, flock, fold, congregation, assembly, brethren, people, society, temporality, secularization, layman, civilian, parishioner, catechumen, secularist, secular, lay, laical, civil, temporal, profane.
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