Definitions
A person without specialist or professional knowledge in a field.
Word origin
From Middle English layman, lay man, equivalent to lay (“non-clergy”) + man. Cognate with Old Frisian lēkmann, lēkmonn (“layman”), obsolete Dutch leekeman (“layman”), Old High German leihman (“layman”), Danish lægmand (“layman”), Swedish lekman (“layman”), Norwegian lekmann (“layman”), Icelandic leikmaður (“layman”).
Used in a sentence
“Carmen is not a professional anthropologist, but strictly a layman.”
“Let me explain it to you [[in layman's terms|in layman's terms]].”
“should he be held to be just a layman, or does he have some art?”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Nonexpert”6 letters
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