layperson
a person who is not a member of the clergy; one of the laity.
a person who is not a member of a given profession, as law or medicine.
Origin of layperson
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How to use layperson in a sentence
When the work of highly influential designers is exhibited, it often fails to impress the lay person.
Prada and Schiaparelli Exhibit Opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art | Robin Givhan | May 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTUntil that time there is no lay person so well qualified to teach children as their own intelligent fathers and mothers.
The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book | VariousThe monks must prepare all their food with their own hands, and no lay person, male or female, may enter their houses.
Parsons and squires—Church and State—combined to keep the common lay person in his place.
The Retrospect | Ada CambridgeNo ordinary lay person can judge her according to her deserts.
British Dictionary definitions for lay person
a person who is not a member of the clergy
a person who does not have specialized or professional knowledge of a subject: a lay person's guide to conveyancing
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