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lay reader

lay reader noun: a person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services.

Noun

lay reader (plural lay readers)

  1. A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services.
    • The Sabbath with us was literally a day of rest. The doctor, who was a licensed lay reader, read the service, and we managed to form a choir, composed of my sister and those of the staff who cared to join it.1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 80

lay reader meaning in Tamil

lay reader in Tamil

நடுநிலையானவர்

Forms of lay reader

plurallay readers

Questions about lay reader

What does lay reader mean?
Lay reader means a person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services.
What is lay reader in Tamil?
Lay reader in Tamil is நடுநிலையானவர். See Lay reader meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lay reader?
Lay reader is a noun.
What is the plural of lay reader?
The plural of lay reader is lay readers.

Words near lay reader in the dictionary

  1. lay person
  2. lay persons
  3. lay pipe
  4. lay preacher
  5. lay preachers
  6. lay reader
  7. lay readers
  8. lay rector
  9. lay rectors
  10. lay rough
  11. lay rubber

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lay reader (page history and authors); lay reader (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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