layman

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy.
  2. Someone who is not a professional in a given field. broadly
    — Carmen is not a professional anthropologist, but strictly a layman.
  3. A common person.
  4. A person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject.
    — should he be held to be just a layman, or does he have some art?
  5. Lay-sister or lay-brother, person received into a convent of monks, following the vows, but not being member of the order.

词形变化

laymen plural

词汇关系

衍生词
in layman's terms laymanism laymanize laymanship
相关词
laity

词源

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”).
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