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6 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person
originFrom 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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0