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- laity
- in Christianity, members of a religious community that do not have the priestly responsibilities of ordained clergy
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
- churchgoer
collapse - a religious person who goes to church regularly related words >
- Christian,
- God-fearing man,
- accepter,
- adorer,
- assembly,
- beadsman,
- believer,
- brethren,
- catechumen,
- celebrant,
- chapelgoer,
- churchgoers,
- churchite,
- churchman,
- class,
- communicant,
- congregation,
- convert,
- daily communicant,
- devotee,
- devotionalist,
- disciple,
- evangelist,
- fanatic,
- flock,
- fold,
- follower,
- good Christian,
- idolater,
- laity,
- laymen,
- minyan,
- neophyte,
- nonclerics,
- nonordained persons,
- parish,
- parishioners,
- people,
- petitioner,
- pietist,
- prayer,
- proselyte,
- receiver,
- religionist,
- revivalist,
- saint,
- seculars,
- sheep,
- society,
- suppliant,
- supplicant,
- supplicator,
- theist,
- truster,
- venerator,
- votary,
- worshiper,
- zealot
- parish
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- a local church community
- the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor related words >
- Kreis,
- archbishopric,
- archdiocese,
- arrondissement,
- assembly,
- bailiwick,
- bishopric,
- borough,
- brethren,
- canton,
- churchgoers,
- city,
- class,
- commune,
- conference,
- congregation,
- congressional district,
- constablewick,
- county,
- departement,
- diocese,
- district,
- duchy,
- electoral district,
- electorate,
- flock,
- fold,
- government,
- hamlet,
- hundred,
- laity,
- laymen,
- magistracy,
- metropolis,
- metropolitan area,
- minyan,
- nonclerics,
- nonordained persons,
- oblast,
- okrug,
- parishioners,
- people,
- precinct,
- principality,
- province,
- region,
- riding,
- seculars,
- see,
- sheep,
- sheriffalty,
- sheriffwick,
- shire,
- shrievalty,
- society,
- soke,
- stake,
- state,
- synod,
- territory,
- town,
- township,
- village,
- wapentake,
- ward
- brethren
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- (plural) the lay members of a male religious order related words >
- assembly,
- aunt,
- auntie,
- blood brother,
- brother,
- bub,
- bubba,
- bud,
- buddy,
- churchgoers,
- class,
- congregation,
- country cousin,
- cousin,
- cousin once removed,
- cousin twice removed,
- daughter,
- father,
- first cousin,
- flock,
- fold,
- foster brother,
- frater,
- grandnephew,
- grandniece,
- granduncle,
- great-aunt,
- great-uncle,
- half brother,
- kid brother,
- laity,
- laymen,
- minyan,
- mother,
- nephew,
- niece,
- nonclerics,
- nonordained persons,
- nuncle,
- nunks,
- nunky,
- parish,
- parishioners,
- people,
- second cousin,
- seculars,
- sheep,
- sis,
- sissy,
- sister,
- sister-german,
- sistern,
- society,
- son,
- stepbrother,
- stepsister,
- unc,
- uncle,
- uncs,
- uterine brother
- sheep
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- woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat
- a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision; "his students followed him like sheep"
- a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon related words >
- Babbitt,
- Columbia,
- Karakul,
- Kerry Hill,
- Lincoln,
- Merino,
- Middle American,
- Panama,
- Philistine,
- Romeldale,
- Romney,
- Suffolk,
- Wensleydale,
- anal character,
- ape,
- assembly,
- bellwether,
- bourgeois,
- brethren,
- burgher,
- churchgoers,
- class,
- compulsive character,
- conformer,
- conformist,
- congregation,
- conventionalist,
- copier,
- copycat,
- copyist,
- counterfeiter,
- cuckoo,
- dissembler,
- dissimulator,
- echo,
- echoer,
- echoist,
- ewe,
- ewe lamb,
- faker,
- flock,
- fold,
- forger,
- formalist,
- hypocrite,
- imitator,
- impersonator,
- impostor,
- jumbuck,
- laity,
- lamb,
- lambkin,
- laymen,
- methodologist,
- middle-class type,
- mime,
- mimer,
- mimic,
- mimicker,
- minyan,
- mocker,
- mockingbird,
- model child,
- monkey,
- mutton,
- nonclerics,
- nonordained persons,
- organization man,
- parish,
- parishioners,
- parrot,
- pedant,
- people,
- perfectionist,
- phony,
- plagiarist,
- plastic person,
- poll-parrot,
- polly,
- polly-parrot,
- poseur,
- precisian,
- precisianist,
- ram,
- seculars,
- simulator,
- society,
- square,
- teenybopper,
- teg,
- trimmer,
- tup,
- wether,
- yeanling,
- yes-man
- flock
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- a group of birds
- a group of sheep or goats
- a church congregation guided by a pastor
- move as a crowd or in a group; "Tourists flocked to the shrine where the statue was said to have shed tears" related words >
- a mass of,
- a world of,
- army,
- assemble,
- assembly,
- band,
- band together,
- bang,
- bangs,
- bevy,
- body,
- brethren,
- bunch,
- charm,
- chip,
- churchgoers,
- class,
- cloud,
- cluster,
- clutter,
- cohue,
- collect,
- collection,
- colony,
- come together,
- company,
- congregate,
- congregation,
- convoy,
- covey,
- crowd,
- crush,
- dandruff,
- deluge,
- drift,
- drive,
- drove,
- fetlock,
- flake,
- fleck,
- fleet,
- flight,
- floccule,
- flocculus,
- flocks,
- flood,
- fold,
- forelock,
- fringe,
- gaggle,
- galaxy,
- gam,
- gang,
- gather,
- gathering,
- go,
- go together,
- group,
- hail,
- heap,
- herd,
- herd together,
- hive,
- horde,
- host,
- jam,
- kennel,
- laity,
- large amount,
- laymen,
- legion,
- litter,
- lots,
- many,
- mass,
- masses of,
- meet,
- minyan,
- mob,
- muchness,
- multitude,
- murmuration,
- nest,
- nonclerics,
- nonordained persons,
- number,
- numbers,
- pack,
- panoply,
- paring,
- parish,
- parishioners,
- people,
- plague,
- plurality,
- pod,
- pour,
- press,
- pride,
- quantities,
- quantity,
- quiff,
- quite a few,
- rabble,
- rout,
- ruck,
- scale,
- school,
- scores,
- scurf,
- seculars,
- set,
- shaving,
- sheep,
- shoal,
- skein,
- skulk,
- sloth,
- society,
- spate,
- spring,
- swarm,
- throng,
- tidy sum,
- trip,
- troop,
- troupe,
- tuft,
- watch,
- worlds of
- people
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- (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
- members of a family line; "his people have been farmers for generations"; "are your people still alive?"
- fill with people or supply with inhabitants; "people a room"; "The government wanted to populate the remote area of the country"
- furnish with people; "The plains are sparsely populated" related words >
- Everyman,
- John Doe,
- Public,
- Richard Roe,
- agnate,
- ancestors,
- ancestry,
- anchor,
- animal kingdom,
- assembly,
- billet at,
- bivouac,
- blood,
- blood relation,
- blood relative,
- bodies,
- body politic,
- bourgeoisie,
- breed,
- brethren,
- brood,
- burrow,
- camp,
- children,
- churchgoers,
- citizenry,
- clan,
- clansman,
- class,
- cognate,
- collateral,
- collateral relative,
- colonize,
- come to anchor,
- common man,
- common people,
- commonage,
- commonality,
- commonalty,
- commoners,
- commonwealth,
- community,
- community at large,
- congregation,
- connections,
- consanguinean,
- constituency,
- consumers,
- cultural community,
- deme,
- demos,
- denizen,
- distaff side,
- distant relation,
- domesticate,
- drop anchor,
- dwellers,
- empeople,
- enate,
- ensconce,
- establish residence,
- estate,
- everybody,
- everyman,
- everyone,
- everywoman,
- family,
- flesh,
- flesh and blood,
- flock,
- fold,
- folk,
- folks,
- forebears,
- general public,
- gens,
- gentry,
- german,
- get,
- grass roots,
- habitancy,
- hearth,
- hive,
- hoi polloi,
- homefolks,
- house,
- household,
- inhabit,
- inhabitants,
- issue,
- keep house,
- kin,
- kind,
- kindred,
- kinfolk,
- kinnery,
- kinsfolk,
- kinsman,
- kinsmen,
- kinswoman,
- kith and kin,
- laity,
- laymen,
- line,
- lineage,
- linguistic community,
- live at,
- locate,
- masses,
- matriclan,
- men,
- menage,
- minyan,
- mobile vulgus,
- moor,
- mortals,
- move,
- multitude,
- nation,
- nationality,
- near relation,
- nest,
- next of kin,
- nonclerics,
- nonordained persons,
- occupy,
- offspring,
- order,
- parish,
- parishioners,
- park,
- patriclan,
- people at large,
- people in general,
- perch,
- persons,
- phratry,
- phyle,
- plant,
- plant kingdom,
- plebeians,
- plebes,
- polity,
- populace,
- populate,
- population,
- posterity,
- proletariat,
- public,
- race,
- ragtag and bobtail,
- rank and file,
- relations,
- relatives,
- relocate,
- reside,
- roost,
- seculars,
- sept,
- set up housekeeping,
- set up shop,
- settle,
- settle down,
- settle in,
- sheep,
- sib,
- sibling,
- silent majority,
- sit down,
- society,
- spear kin,
- spear side,
- species,
- speech community,
- spindle kin,
- spindle side,
- squat,
- stand,
- state,
- stay at,
- stem,
- stirps,
- stock,
- strain,
- strike root,
- subjects,
- sword side,
- take residence at,
- take root,
- take up residence,
- tenant,
- the citizenry,
- the crowd,
- the general public,
- the people,
- the populace,
- the population,
- the public,
- third estate,
- totem,
- tribe,
- tribesman,
- uterine kin,
- whole people,
- world,
- you and me
- assembly
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- the social act of assembling; "they demanded the right of assembly"
- a group of machine parts that fit together to form a self-contained unit
- a group of persons gathered together for a common purpose related words >
- British Cabinet,
- Sanhedrin,
- US Cabinet,
- advisory body,
- architecture,
- assemblage,
- assemblee,
- assembly line,
- assembly-line production,
- assignation,
- association,
- at home,
- ball,
- bench,
- bicameral legislature,
- board,
- board of aldermen,
- body,
- body of advisers,
- borough council,
- brain trust,
- brawl,
- brethren,
- building,
- buildup,
- cabinet,
- call-up,
- camarilla,
- canvass,
- casting,
- caucus,
- census,
- chamber,
- chamber of deputies,
- churchgoers,
- circle,
- city board,
- city council,
- class,
- collection,
- colligation,
- collocation,
- colloquium,
- combination,
- commission,
- committee,
- common council,
- company,
- comparison,
- composition,
- compound,
- conclave,
- concourse,
- concurrence,
- conference,
- confluence,
- conflux,
- congregation,
- congress,
- connection,
- constitution,
- construction,
- consultative assembly,
- conventicle,
- convention,
- convergence,
- conversion,
- convocation,
- corralling,
- council,
- council fire,
- council of ministers,
- council of state,
- council of war,
- county council,
- court,
- crafting,
- craftsmanship,
- creation,
- crowd,
- cultivation,
- dance,
- data-gathering,
- date,
- deliberative assembly,
- devising,
- diet,
- directory,
- divan,
- eisteddfod,
- elaboration,
- embodiment,
- erection,
- extraction,
- fabrication,
- fashioning,
- federal assembly,
- festivity,
- fete,
- flock,
- fold,
- forgathering,
- formation,
- forming,
- formulation,
- forum,
- framing,
- gathering,
- general assembly,
- get-together,
- getup,
- group,
- growing,
- handicraft,
- handiwork,
- harvesting,
- horde,
- host,
- house of assembly,
- housewarming,
- incorporation,
- ingathering,
- inventory,
- junction,
- junta,
- juxtaposition,
- kitchen cabinet,
- laity,
- laymen,
- legislative assembly,
- legislative body,
- legislative chamber,
- legislature,
- levee,
- lower chamber,
- lower house,
- machining,
- make,
- makeup,
- making,
- manufacture,
- manufacturing,
- meet,
- meeting,
- milling,
- mining,
- minyan,
- mixture,
- mobilization,
- molding,
- multitude,
- muster,
- national assembly,
- nonclerics,
- nonordained persons,
- organization,
- panel,
- parish,
- parish council,
- parishioners,
- parliament,
- party,
- people,
- piecing together,
- plenum,
- prefabrication,
- preparation,
- privy council,
- processing,
- producing,
- production line,
- prom,
- provincial legislature,
- provincial parliament,
- putting together,
- quorum,
- raising,
- rally,
- reception,
- refining,
- rendezvous,
- representative town meeting,
- rodeo,
- roundup,
- seance,
- seculars,
- session,
- set-up,
- setup,
- shaping,
- sheep,
- shindig,
- sit-in,
- sitting,
- smelting,
- society,
- soiree,
- soviet,
- staff,
- state assembly,
- state legislature,
- structure,
- structuring,
- survey,
- symposium,
- syndicate,
- syneresis,
- synod,
- synthesis,
- throng,
- town meeting,
- tribunal,
- turnout,
- unicameral legislature,
- upper chamber,
- upper house,
- workmanship
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