Crossword clues for laymen
laymen
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Layman \Lay"man\n.; pl. Laymen. [Lay, adj. + man.]
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One of the people, in distinction from the clergy; one of the laity; sometimes, a man not belonging to some particular profession, in distinction from those who do.
Being a layman, I ought not to have concerned myself with speculations which belong to the profession.
--Dryden. A lay figure. See under Lay, n. (above).
--Dryden
Wiktionary
n. (plural of layman English)
Usage examples of "laymen".
Gall only a few monks are left who know how to write, that now in the cities corporations and guilds arise, made up of laymen who work for the universities, and only your abbey day after day renews, or—what am I saying?
He had always known that business was regarded as some sort of secret, shameful cult, which one did not impose on innocent laymen, that people thought of it as of an ugly necessity, to be performed but never mentioned, that to talk shop was an offense against higher sensibilities, that just as one washed machine grease off one's hands before coming home, so one was supposed to wash the stain of business off one's mind before entering a drawing room.
He was ranked as semi-powerful, but his manner made laymen mistake him for nothing less than Wesley Mouch.
The science of sound has astonishing aspects, which laymen would scarcely suspect.
Most laymen will even cross party lines for anyone they have met and have no reason to dislike.
Clergymen are aware of this cold truth (if they are honest with themselves) but laymen sometimes think that men of the cloth have an inside track.
I picked out passages easy for laymen to understand, wrote down chapter and verse so that he could study them later.