laity

noun

Laypeople considered as a group.

noun

All those persons who are not members of a given profession or other specialized field.

noun

The state of being a layman, or of not being in orders.

noun

The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders; laymen collectively.

noun

The people outside of a particular profession, as distinguished from those belonging to it; persons unskilled in a particular art or science, as distinguished from those who are professionally conversant with it.

noun

The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.

noun

The state of a layman.

noun

Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.

noun

people of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics.

noun

the common man or woman