Antonyms of noun layman

1 sense of layman

Sense 1
layman, layperson, secular -- (someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person)
       Antonym of clergyman (Sense 1)
      => clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth -- (a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun layman

1 sense of layman

Sense 1
layman, layperson, secular -- (someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person)
       => commoner, common man, common person -- (a person who holds no title)

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