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ˈleɪˌpɜr sənlayper·son
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Princeton's WordNet
layman, layperson, secularnoun
someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
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laypersonnoun
one who is not formally trained in a given subject or profession
The book was written for professionals, but an intelligent layperson could understand most of it.
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layperson
A layperson is an individual who does not belong to a particular profession or is not an expert in some specific field of knowledge or skill. They lack specialized education or professional training in a specific subject. This term is often used to refer to a non-clergy member in a religious context or a non-medical person in a medical context.
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Layperson
A layperson or layman is a person who is not an expert in a given field of knowledge. Originally, the term signified a member of the laity, i.e., a non-clergyman. In current use the meaning is always obvious from the context: "laymen often think that the sequence 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 is less likely to come up in a lottery than, say, 3, 6, 11, 19, 27, 34, 42" implies that statisticians and mathematicians do not think this. The concept of describing something "in layman's terms" has come into wide use in the English-speaking world. To put something in layman's terms is to describe a complex or technical issue using words that the average person can understand.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of layperson in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of layperson in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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