layman vs professional

layman

noun
  • Someone who is not a professional in a given field. 

  • A common person. 

  • Layperson, someone who is not an ordained cleric or member of the clergy. 

  • A generally ignorant person. 

  • Lay-sister or lay-brother, person received into a convent of monks, following the vows, but not being member of the order. 

  • A person who is untrained or lacks knowledge of a subject. 

professional

noun
  • A person who belongs to a profession 

  • A reputation known by name 

  • A prostitute 

  • An expert 

  • One of four categories of sociologist propounded by Horowitz: a sociologist who is actively concerned with promoting the profession of sociology. 

  • A person who earns their living from a specified activity 

adj
  • Expert. 

  • Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with the (usually high) standards of a profession. 

  • That is carried out for money, especially as a livelihood. 

How often have the words layman and professional occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )