Usually means: Non-ordained members of church.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word laity:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. laity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. laity: Merriam-Webster
  3. laity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. laity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. laity: Collins English Dictionary
  6. laity: Vocabulary.com
  7. Laity, laity: Wordnik
  8. the laity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. laity: Wiktionary
  10. laity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. laity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. laity: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Laity, laity: Dictionary.com
  14. laity: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. laity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Laity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Laity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. laity: Rhymezone
  19. laity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. laity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. laity: FreeDictionary.org
  22. laity: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. laity: Mnemonic Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Laity: Legal dictionary
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. laity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. laity: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. laity: A Word A Day

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Laity: Catholic Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  People of a church who are not ordained clergy or clerics.
noun:  The common man or woman.
noun:  The unlearned, untrained or ignorant.

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