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LAYMAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person

Synonyms:

layman; layperson; secular

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("layman" is a kind of...):

common man; common person; commoner (a person who holds no title)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "layman"):

lay reader (a layman who is authorized by the bishop to read parts of the service in an Anglican or Episcopal church)

Holonyms ("layman" is a member of...):

laity; temporalty (in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy)

Antonym:

clergyman (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)

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