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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | amateur |
| Synonyms: | layman, secular |
| Main Entry: | secular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not spiritual or religious |
| Synonyms: | civil, earthly, laic, laical, lay, material, materialistic, nonclerical, nonreligious, of this world, profane, temporal, unsacred, worldly |
| Notes: | sectarian means of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects, while secular means not specifically relating to religion or to a religious body or not religious or spiritual in nature |
| Antonyms: | godly, holy, religious, spiritual |
| Main Entry: | layman |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amateur |
| Synonyms: | believer, dilettante, follower, laic, lay person, member, neophyte, nonprofessional, novice, outsider, parishioner, proselyte, recruit, secular |
| Antonyms: | professional |
| Main Entry: | nonprofessional |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | layperson |
| Synonyms: | amateur, dabbler, dilettante, laic, laity, layman, laywoman, tyro |
| Antonyms: | professional |
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