Laity

n. people who are not members of the clergy; people who are not members of a specific profession

In religious organizations, the laity comprises all lay persons collectively. This can mean either any person who is not a member of the ordained clergy or of any monastic order or, within such an order, a monastic who is not a priest (c.f., lay brother). Conversely, terms such as lay priest, lay clergy and lay nun were once used in both Christian and Buddhist cultures to indicate ordained persons who continued to live out in the wider community instead of retiring to a monastery. In recent centuries, the term is often used more generally, in the context of any specialized profession, to refer to those who are not members of that profession.
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Noun
1. everyone except the clergy
(synonym) temporalty
(antonym) clergy
(hypernym) multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people
(member-meronym) layman, layperson

(a.)
Those who are not of a certain profession, as law or medicine, in distinction from those belonging to it.
  

(a.)
The state of a layman.
  

(a.)
The people, as distinguished from the clergy; the body of the people not in orders.
  

An English word used to refer to the general members of a religion (in Buddhism, Christianity, etc.) as opposed to religious specialists such as monks or priests. In Buddhism, the opposite of laity is the sangha .