Synonyms of the word

secular

• adj. Not specifically religious.
• adj. Temporal; worldly, or otherwise not based on something timeless.
• adj. (Christianity) Not bound by the vows of a monastic order.
• adj. Happening once in an age or century.
• adj. Continuing over a long period of time, long-term.
• adj. (literary) Centuries-old, ancient.
• adj. (astrophysics, geology) Relating to long-term non-periodic irregularities, especially in planetary motion…
• adj. (atomic physics) Unperturbed over time.
• n. A secular ecclesiastic, or one not bound by monastic rules.
• n. A church official whose functions are confined to the vocal department of the choir.
• n. A layman, as distinguished from a clergyman.

commoner

• adj. comparative form of common: more common.
• n. A member of the common people who holds no title or rank.
• n. (Britain) Someone who is not of noble rank.
• n. (Britain, Oxbridge slang) An undergraduate who does not hold either a scholarship or an exhibition.
• n. (obsolete, Britain, Oxford University slang) A student who is not dependent on any foundation for support,…
• n. Someone holding common rights because of residence or land ownership in a particular manor, especially…
• n. (obsolete) One sharing with another in anything.
• n. (obsolete) A prostitute.

laic

• n. A layperson, as opposed to a member of the clergy.
• adj. Lay, relating to laypersons, as opposed to clerical.

lay

• v. (transitive) To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to subside or abate.
• v. (transitive) To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
• v. (transitive) To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
• v. (transitive) To produce and deposit an egg.
• v. (transitive) To bet (that something is or is not the case).
• v. (transitive) To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
• v. (transitive, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
• v. (law) To state; to allege.
• v. (military) To point; to aim.
• v. (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
• v. (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
• v. (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
• v. To apply; to put.
• v. To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
• v. To impute; to charge; to allege.
• v. To present or offer.
• n. Arrangement or relationship; layout.
• n. A share of the profits in a business.
• n. The direction a rope is twisted.
• n. (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
• n. (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
• n. (slang, archaic) A plan; a scheme.
• n. (uncountable) the laying of eggs.
• n. A lake.
• adj. Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution.
• adj. Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them.
• adj. (obsolete) Not educated or cultivated; ignorant.
• v. simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position.
• v. (proscribed) To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie).
• n. A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
• n. (obsolete) A meadow; a lea.
• n. (obsolete) A law.
• n. (obsolete) An obligation; a vow.
• v. (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).

layman

• n. layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy.
• n. by analogy, someone who is not a professional in a given field.
• n. a common person.
• n. a person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject.
• n. a generally ignorant person.
• n. lay-sister or lay-brother, person received into a convent of monks, following the vows, but not being…

layperson

• n. A person who is not a cleric.
• n. One who is not intimately familiar with a given subject or activity.

profane

• adj. Unclean; ritually impure; unholy, desecrating a holy place or thing.
• adj. Not sacred or holy, unconsecrated; relating to non-religious matters, secular.
• adj. Treating sacred things with contempt, disrespect, irreverence, or scorn; blasphemous, impious.
• adj. Irreverent in language; taking the name of God in vain.
• n. A person or thing that is profane.
• n. (freemasonry) A person not a Mason.
• v. (transitive) To violate (something sacred); to treat with abuse, irreverence, obloquy, or contempt; to…
• v. (transitive) To put to a wrong or unworthy use; to debase; to abuse; to defile.