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Layman vs Cayman - What's the difference?

layman | cayman |

As nouns the difference between layman and cayman

is that layman is layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy while cayman is .

layman

English

(wikipedia layman)

Noun

(laymen)
  • layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy
  • by analogy, someone who is not a professional in a given field
    • Carmen is not a professional anthropologist, but strictly a layman .
    Let me explain it to you in layman's terms.
  • a common person
  • a person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject
  • * 2005 , .
    • should he be held to be just a layman , or does he have some art?
  • a generally ignorant person
  • lay-sister or lay-brother, person received into a convent of monks, following the vows, but not being member of the order

    • Antonyms

    * expert * specialist * professional

    Derived terms

    * in layman's terms

    Related terms

    * laity

    cayman

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1862 , The Quiver , Volumes 1-6, page 451,
    • We were about to follow this advice, when another man, more rash than his comrades, said, 'I'm not afraid of caymans ,' and spurred his horse into the stream.
  • * 1996 , Dale Alan Olsen (editor), Music of the Warao of Venezuela: Song People of the Rain Forest , page 326,
    • Surely, when this animal comes, it is to eat us. Thus, we have to sing this hoa. This is how I learned this hoa for caymans'. One sings this so he won't be eaten by the ' caymans .
  • * 2002 , Harry S. Pariser, Explore Puerto Rico , page 157,
    • Laguna Tortuguero' has some 2,000 ''caimanes'' (' caymans ), a type of alligator indigenous to Central and S America.