LAYMAN
Dictionary entry overview: What does layman mean?
• LAYMAN (noun)
The noun LAYMAN has 1 sense:
1. someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
Familiarity information: LAYMAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LAYMAN (noun)
Meaning:
Someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
layman; layperson; secular
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)
