laity
nounLaypeople considered as a group.
nounAll those persons who are not members of a given profession or other specialized field.
nounThe state of being a layman, or of not being in orders.
nounThe people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders; laymen collectively.
nounThe 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.
nounThe people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.
nounThe state of a layman.
nounThose who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.
nounthe common man or woman