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LAYPERSON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does layperson mean?
• LAYPERSON (noun)
The noun LAYPERSON has 1 sense:
1. someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
Familiarity information: LAYPERSON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("layperson" is a kind of...):
common man; common person; commoner (a person who holds no title)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "layperson"):
lay reader (a layman who is authorized by the bishop to read parts of the service in an Anglican or Episcopal church)
Holonyms ("layperson" is a member of...):
laity; temporalty (in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy)
Context examples
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