English Dictionary

lay

/leɪ/

adj

Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them. / Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution. / (card games) Not trumps. / (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.

He is a lay person and not a priest.

意味（1）

Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.

They seemed more lay than clerical.

意味（2）

Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.

He hasn't caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep. … It's a sort of disease. There's a scientific name for it. Trau- something. Traumatic symplegia, that's it. This cat has traumatic symplegia. In other words, putting it in simple language adapted to the lay mind, where other cats are content to get their eight hours, Augustus wants his twenty-four.

意味（3）

(card games) Not trumps.

a lay suit

意味（4）

(obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.