common man vs layman

layman vs common man

common man and layman both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
common man	Yes	No	No	No
layman	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, layman is a hyponym of common man; that is, layman is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than common man:

common man: a person who holds no title
layman: someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person

Other hyponyms of common man include bourgeois, burgher, cipher, cypher, nobody, nonentity, everyman, Joe Bloggs, Joe Blow, John Doe, man in the street, layperson, secular, pleb, plebeian, prole, proletarian, worker, rustic.

common man (noun)	layman (noun)
a person who holds no title	someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person

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