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laywomen

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

俗妇人,妇产科医生,俗家妇女,俗家女

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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.

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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.