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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

laywoman

/ley-woom-uhn/US // ˈleɪˌwʊm ən //UK // (ˈleɪwʊmən) //

俗人,俗家女,俗家妇女,外行

Related Words

amateur业余者,业余爱好者,业余的,业余人士dabbler涉猎者,涉足者,涉世未深的人,涉世未深者dilettante一知半解的人,一知半解者,一知半解,一知半解人laic癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉,癞子,癞皮狗,癞蛤蟆laity教友,俗人,教友们,教众layman外行,外行人,俗人tyro大亨,富豪,轮胎,胎儿

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural lay·wom·en.

    • : a woman who is not a member of the clergy.
    • : a woman who is not a member of a given profession, as law or medicine.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as innonprofessional
Forms: laywomen
Synonyms
amateur业余者,业余爱好者,业余的,业余人士dabbler涉猎者,涉足者,涉世未深的人,涉世未深者dilettante一知半解的人,一知半解者,一知半解,一知半解人laic癞蛤蟆想吃天鹅肉,癞子,癞皮狗,癞蛤蟆laity教友,俗人,教友们,教众layman外行,外行人,俗人tyro大亨,富豪,轮胎,胎儿

Examples

  • One Italian paper even suggested that an unnamed laywoman had secretly ordered the butler to do it.

  • But when you speak of man acting as a unit he is a layman, but you never say a laywoman.

  • It was reasonable to suppose that a laywoman would not succeed where physicians had failed.

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