A person who has not had a perceptual experience of the truth and has therefore not achieved the state of a noble being.

In the Buddhist taxonomy of persons, someone who has not reached any of the four stages of the path (stream enterer, once-returner, non-returner, or arhat) and is still bound by the ten fetters (saṃyojana) that bind one to saṃsāra and who is thus contrasted with those four stages.

A person who has not had a perceptual experience of the truth and has therefore not achieved the state of a noble being.

Anyone who has not entered the “Path of Seeing” (i.e., has no stable direct realization of selflessness) is an ordinary person as opposed to a noble one.