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n. A man who is not a cleric.

n. A man who is a nonprofessional: His is just the layman's view of medicine. See Usage Note at man.

n. layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy

n. by analogy, someone who is not a professional in a given field

n. a common person

n. a person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject

n. a generally ignorant person

n. lay-sister or lay-brother, person received into a convent of monks, following the vows, but not being member of the order

n. 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.

n. A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above).

n. 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.

n. Same as lay-figure, 1.

n. someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person

"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."

priest    expert    specialist    professional   

common person    commoner    common man   

laity   

lay   

lay reader   

in layman's terms   

laic    nonprofessional    secular   

Daman    Damon    Haman    Lehmann    Philemon    Raman    Xiamen    bayman    cayman    daemon   

laity    theologian    churchman    cleric    clergyman    educator    scholar    naturalist    pastor    deacon