laity – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
laity
n.
people who are not members of the clergy; people who are not members of a specific profession
Laity
laity
Noun
1. everyone except the clergy
(synonym) temporalty
(antonym) clergy
(hypernym) multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people
(member-meronym) layman, layperson
Laity
(a.)
Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.
(a.)
The state of a layman.
(a.)
The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Laity*
An English word used to refer to the general members of a religion (in Buddhism, Christianity, etc.) as opposed to religious specialists such as monks or priests. In Buddhism, the opposite of laity is the
sangha .
