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layperson
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun layperson has 1 sense
- layperson(n = noun.person) layman, 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
CIDE DICTIONARY
layperson, n.
someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person; a layman. [WordNet 1.5]
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