This textbook was written for technical specialists, but a bright layperson should be able to get the gist.
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Layperson
Synonyms for "layperson" (4 found)
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Noun(2 words)
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6 entriesTranslations
51 translations across 20 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 俗家 noun (one who is not a cleric)
- 外行 noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
Czech
3 entries- laik noun (one who is not a cleric)
- laik noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
- neodborník noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
Finnish
3 entries- amatööri noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
- maallikko noun (one who is not a cleric)
- maallikko noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
French
3 entries- laïc noun (one who is not a cleric)
- laïque noun (one who is not a cleric)
- profane noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
Georgian
1 entries- დილეტანტი noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
German
4 entries- Laie noun (one who is not a cleric)
- Laie noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
- Laiin noun (one who is not a cleric)
- Laiin noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
Greek
1 entries- αμύητος noun (one who is not a cleric)
Irish
2 entries- tuata noun (one who is not a cleric)
- tuata noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
Italian
4 entries- laica noun (one who is not a cleric)
- laico noun (one who is not a cleric)
- profana noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
- profano noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
Japanese
2 entries- 俗人 noun (one who is not a cleric)
- 素人 noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
Korean
1 entries- 평신도 noun (one who is not a cleric)
Portuguese
3 entries- laico noun (one who is not a cleric)
- leigo noun (one who is not a cleric)
- leigo noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
Russian
4 entries- дилета́нт noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
- дилета́нтка noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
- люби́тель noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
- люби́тельница noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
Slovak
3 entries- laik noun (one who is not a cleric)
- laik noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
- neodborník noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
Spanish
2 entries- laico noun (one who is not a cleric)
- lego noun (one who is not a cleric)
Swahili
1 entries- mlei noun (one who is not a cleric)
Swedish
1 entries- lekman noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
Thai
2 entries- คฤหัสถ์ noun (one who is not a cleric)
- ฆราวาส noun (one who is not a cleric)
Tocharian B
2 entries- upāsake noun (one who is not a cleric)
- upāsakāñca noun (one who is not a cleric)
Turkish
4 entries- uzman dışı biri noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
- uzman dışı kimse noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
- uzmanı olmayan biri noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
- uzmanı olmayan kimse noun (one who is not intimately familiar with a given subject)
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Your average layperson wouldn't know much about this industry.
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Holonym: laity
Source: wiktionary
We should not underestimate European laypeople. They were perfectly capable of thinking for themselves, particularly about death, a religious theme in which everyone had an investment and about which everyone was likely to have an opinion. There is no need to invoke the idea of systematic pagan survival to account for this: Europe’s mass Christianization had been a steady if piecemeal process from the sixth century through to the fourteenth.
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