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yeoman
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun yeoman has 2 senses
- yeoman(n = noun.person) beefeater, yeoman of the guard - officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch; Array is a kind of bodyguard, escort
- yeoman(n = noun.person) Array - in former times was free and cultivated his own land; Array is a kind of freeholder
CIDE DICTIONARY
yeoman, n. [OE. yoman, \'f4eman, \'f4oman; of uncertain origin; perhaps the first, syllable is akin to OFries. gā district, region, G. gau, OHG. gewi, gouwi, Goth. gawi.
one of the bodyguard of the English sovereign, consisting of the hundred yeomen, armed with partisans, and habited in the costume of the sixteenth century. They are members of the royal household.
- A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born. [1913 Webster]" A yeoman in England is considered as next in order to the gentry. The word is little used in the United States, unless as a title in law proceedings and instruments, designating occupation, and this only in particular States." [1913 Webster]
- A servant; a retainer. [1913 Webster]"A yeman hadde he and servants no mo." [1913 Webster]
- A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry. [1913 Webster]
- An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
yeoman, n. (pl. -men)
1 esp. hist. a man holding and cultivating a small landed estate.
2 hist. a person qualified by possessing free land of an annual value of 40 shillings to serve on juries, vote for the knight of the shire, etc.
3 Brit. a member of the yeomanry force.
4 hist. a servant in a royal or noble household.
5 (in full yeoman of signals) a petty officer in the Navy, concerned with visual signalling.
6 US a petty officer performing clerical duties on board ship.
1 esp. hist. a man holding and cultivating a small landed estate.
2 hist. a person qualified by possessing free land of an annual value of 40 shillings to serve on juries, vote for the knight of the shire, etc.
3 Brit. a member of the yeomanry force.
4 hist. a servant in a royal or noble household.
5 (in full yeoman of signals) a petty officer in the Navy, concerned with visual signalling.
6 US a petty officer performing clerical duties on board ship.
Idiom
Yeoman of the Guard
1 a member of the British sovereign's bodyguard.
2 (in general use) a warder in the Tower of London. yeoman (or yeoman's) service efficient or useful help in need. Yeoman Usher Brit. the deputy of Black Rod.
1 a member of the British sovereign's bodyguard.
2 (in general use) a warder in the Tower of London. yeoman (or yeoman's) service efficient or useful help in need. Yeoman Usher Brit. the deputy of Black Rod.
Derivative
yeomanly adj.
Etymology
ME yoman, yeman, etc., prob. f. YOUNG + MAN
THESAURUS
yeoman
Bauer, Ganymede, Hebe, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, airline hostess, airline stewardess, attendant, bakehead, batman, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, black gang, bodyguard, boilerman, bootblack, boots, bungs, cabin boy, caddie, chips, chore boy, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, commissary steward, complement, convoy, copyboy, creature, crofter, cropper, cultivator, cupbearer, deckhand, deckie, dependent, dirt farmer, dry farmer, errand boy, errand girl, escort, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, feudatory, fireman, flunky, follower, footboy, gentleman farmer, gentleman-at-arms, gofer, granger, grower, guards, guardsman, gun loader, gunner, hand, hanger-on, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, homager, hospital steward, hostess, husbandman, inferior, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, lackey, landing signalman, liege, liege man, mail orderly, minion, muzhik, myrmidon, navigator, office boy, office girl, oiler, orderly, page, peasant, peasant holder, peon, picker, planter, plowboy, plowman, praetorian guard, purser, radio operator, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, retainer, roustabout, rustic, safeguard, serf, sharecropper, slave, snip, snips, sower, sparks, squire, steward, stewardess, stoker, stooge, subordinate, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tender, tiller, torpedoman, trainbearer, tree farmer, truck farmer, underling, understrapper, usher, vassal, watchROGET THESAURUS
yeoman
Agriculture
N agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming, georgics, geoponics, tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage, horticulture, arboriculture, floriculture, landscape gardening, viticulture, husbandman, horticulturist, gardener, florist, agricultor, agriculturist, yeoman, farmer, cultivator, tiller of the soil, woodcutter, backwoodsman, granger, habitat, vigneron, viticulturist, Triptolemus, field, meadow, garden, botanic garden, winter garden, ornamental garden, flower garden, kitchen garden, market garden, hop garden, nursery, green house, hot house, conservatory, bed, border, seed plot, grassplot, grassplat, lawn, park, parterre, shrubbery, plantation, avenue, arboretum, pinery, pinetum, orchard, vineyard, vinery, orangery, farm, agricultural, agrarian, agrestic, arable, predial, rural, rustic, country, horticultural.Man
N man, male, he, him, manhood, gentleman, sir, master, sahib, yeoman, wight, swain, fellow, blade, beau, elf, chap, gaffer, good man, husband, Mr, mister, boy, cock, drake, gander, dog, boar, stag, hart, buck, horse, entire horse, stallion, gibcat, tomcat, he goat, Billy goat, ram, tup, bull, bullock, capon, ox, gelding, steer, stot, androgen, homosexual, gay, queen, male, he-, masculine, manly, virile, unwomanly, unfeminine, Pron, he, him, his, hominem pagina nostra sapit, homo homini aut deus aut lupus, homo vitae commodatus non donatus est.
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