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lay teacher

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: N/A, OED Evaluation: N/A

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ExampleMeaning
The nuns were the primary teachers there, they were, oh I'd say six maybe lay teachers.
A teacher in a parochial school who is not a member of the religious order as 'nuns' and 'priests' are.
ExampleMeaning
Anyway yeah it was interesting. and then I had some lay teachers too and yeah I had a nun since and ah lay people. No men though. Did not have a man teacher until grade-nine or ten, yeah, yeah. All female.
A teacher in a parochial school who is not a member of the religious order as 'nuns' and 'priests' are.
ExampleMeaning
There was no kindergarten, and um when I first started in grade-one a lot of teachers were nuns from the convent. Ah there were some lay-teachers, but not a lot and there were no men-teachers.
A teacher in a parochial school who is not a member of the religious order as 'nuns' and 'priests' are.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Well, ah, when I was- I was going to school- particularly in, ah- not only the grade-school, ah, there were very few la-- ah, well, I would say, maybe a couple, two or- maybe a couple of- two or three lay-teachers in the school, but there were mostly all- Interviewer: Lay-teachers? Speaker: Lay-teachers. Lay-- lay-people, not religious sisters, you-know, ah, belonging to religious communities.
A teacher in a parochial school who is not a member of the religious order as 'nuns' and 'priests' are.