Layman vs Laymen - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between layman and laymen

is that layman is layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy while laymen is plural of lang=en.

(wikipedia layman)

(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

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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