Antonym: clergyman, priest. Similar words: clergyman, journeyman, gerrymander, every man jack, payment, repayment, down payment, polymath. Meaning: ['leɪmən] 
n. someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person.
n. someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person. 
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1. To the layman all these plants look pretty similar.
2. Where the law is concerned, I'm only a layman.
3. These technical terms are difficult for the layman to understand.
4. In 1932, one Boston layman wrote to Archbishop William O'Connell in support of Father Coughlin.
5. To a layman, it might all seem mildly amusing.
6. The report was readable and understandable to the layman.
7. Nor was Wilkins a layman championing a secular cause.
8. They have sensed, as the layman does not, the damage to established ideas which lurks in these relationships.
9. The Quebec-born layman Louis Jolliet was to lead the expedition.
10. The only proviso was that a layman would be able to recognize the one from the other.
11. Perplexities A layman venturing into the quantum world no doubt expects to encounter some fairly strange phenomena.
12. To be a layman, even to be anticlerical, is not necessarily to be irreligious.
13. You are a layman in the field of oceanology.
14. The layman can make nothing of it.
15. Every cothurnus can bring up hero from layman.
16. Pope Benedict XVI washes the feet of a layman at a Cathedral in Rome, part of a ritual symbolizing humility observed on Holy Thursday.
17. He's layman out and out, so you'd better not let him fold things up.
18. In the language of the layman the Epicrustal rocks can best be described as the'scum. ".
19. The layman is generally more concerned with their possible unethical uses.
20. CANON XXIV: Any layman who has mutilated himself shall be excommunicated for three years, For he is a plotter against his own life.
21. The mere mention of the words "heart failure", can conjure up, to the layman, the prospect of imminent death.
22. The subject matter was so technical as to be beyond the ken of the average layman.
23. The notion of transparent reporting which can be understood by the untutored layman is a chimera.
24. He did not retire into a monastery but lived in Rangoon as a layman, under constant police surveillance.
25. On the other hand(sentencedict.com), Chain and Florey were armed with apparatus which means little or nothing to the layman.
26. Its esoteric meaning is of the domain of the scholar rather than the layman - of the initiate rather than the priest.
27. The theory of viral communications is a bit hard for the layman (this writer included) to grok, so I asked Lippman for some examples.
28. Literally speaking, a "naive person" is an amateur, a layman, an enthusiast who from time to time joins the creation.
29. My uncle posed as a connoisseur in paintings while actually he was only a layman.
30. And yet, there is one context in which economists talk about job scarcity in the same terms as an ordinary layman guilty of make-work bias.
More similar words: clergyman, journeyman, gerrymander, every man jack, payment, repayment, down payment, polymath, underpayment, ready-made, grey matter, money market, policy maker, transfer payment, yesterday morning, policy making, policy-making, balance of payments, money market fund, installment payment, lay, play, slay, flay, layout, lay out, clay, allay, relay, play out.