Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is not a cleric.
- noun One who is a nonprofessional in a given field.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person; a
layman .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a person who is not a cleric
- noun one who is not
formally trained in a given subject orprofession
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
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Examples
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And then to have to translate that knowledge to the layperson is a challenge.
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The layperson is astonished, while the experts remain silent.
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I, or any individual American layperson is not responsible for the Bush adminstration’s actions, or even Congress’ actions for the matter.
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The problem is getting the science right in a form that is understandable and interesting to the layperson is a very difficult challenge.
tingilinde: 2010
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Our very own Seifert Surface is a postdoctoral mathematician who can explain, in terms a layperson can grasp, what in the heck is going on with the many dozens and dozens - is that a legitimate quantity, Seifert?
Not Possible IRL Field Trips with Seifert Surface Bettina Tizzy 2007
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Our very own Seifert Surface is a postdoctoral mathematician who can explain, in terms a layperson can grasp, what in the heck is going on with the many dozens and dozens - is that a legitimate quantity, Seifert?
Archive 2007-08-01 Bettina Tizzy 2007
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In other words, you don't know as a layperson what situations you could be in.
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To this layperson, that is the simplest, most elegant response to “cosmological fine-tuning”.
What is Cosmological Fine-Tuning Evidence For? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Media Watch: I was reading Asteroids by Curtis Peebles (2000, Smithsonian Institution Press) when I saw some things I hadn't expected to see in this kind of layperson's science book.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2006
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Media Watch: I was reading Asteroids by Curtis Peebles (2000, Smithsonian Institution Press) when I saw some things I hadn't expected to see in this kind of layperson's science book.
Archive 2006-02-01 Michael Evans 2006
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