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.
- : one unduly fearful of what is foreign and especially of people of foreign origin yeoman
- The word yeoman was under stood in the old English sense of the small independent farmers.
- “Excuse me, Admiral, I have Captain Bonelli on the secure line,” called the yeoman from the doorway of his office.
- Beefeaters are originally called yeoman warders, originally assigned in the 15th century to guard high profile prisoners.
- The word yeoman is often used as an equivalent term and sometimes the original Scandinavian form _bonde_ is used in English.
- The plain Anglo-Saxon yeoman strain which was really the basis of his nature now asserted itself in the growing conservatism of ideas which marked the last forty years of his life.
- Goodman Mascall, Goodman Cockswet, etc., and in matters of law these and the like are called thus, _Giles Jewd, yeoman; Edward Mountford, yeoman; James Cocke, yeoman; Harry Butcher, yeoman_, etc.; by which addition they are exempt from the vulgar and common sorts.
- I may instance his derivation of dismal from Latin dies mali, unpropitious days, derided by Trench, but now known to be substantially correct, and his intelligent conjecture that the much discussed word yeoman 'seemeth to be one word made by contraction of yong man,' an etymology quite recently revived — July 1921 — by the Oxford Dictionary.
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