yeoman
IPA: jˈoʊmʌn
noun
- (UK) An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page. Especially, a yeoman of the guard, a member of a ceremonial bodyguard to the UK monarch (not to be confused with a Yeoman Warder).
- (US) A dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service.
- (historical) A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing.
- A subordinate, deputy, aide, or assistant.
- A Yeoman Warder.
- A clerk in the US Navy, and US Coast Guard.
- (nautical) In a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom.
- A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry, officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s.
- A member of the Imperial Yeomanry, officially created in 1890s and renamed in 1907.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cirrochroa, of Asia and Australasia.
- A surname originating as an occupation.
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Examples of "yeoman" in Sentences
- He is the richest yeoman in the town.
- He wants to be a rich yeoman in the future.
- As the yeoman class is considerd to be of the peasantry.
- What is the difference between a yeoman and the canaille
- The yeoman seems much the more talkative of the two arrivals.
- Prior to that it was the duty of the Yeoman to serve is militias.
- The yeoman watched the teenage couple slip away toward the creek.
- Only the elite and some of the yeoman farmers were qualified to vote.
- On the other side of the agricultural coin were the small yeoman farmers.
- At the time of this deed Vaughan was a yeoman of the chamber to the Queen.