YEOMAN
\jˈə͡ʊmən], \jˈəʊmən], \j_ˈəʊ_m_ə_n]\
Definitions of YEOMAN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.
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A servant; a retainer.
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A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry.
By Oddity Software
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A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.
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A servant; a retainer.
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A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry.
By Noah Webster.
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Formerly, a retainer of a member of the English nobility; in England, a commoner; a small landowner; one of the farming class; in the navy, a petty officer who does clerical work.
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Yeomanlike.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A man of common rank next below a gentleman: a man of small estate: an officer of the royal household.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. [Etymology uncertain-said to be from Anglo-Saxon. German a common man;-also from Anglo-Saxon, young and man;-perhaps from Gothic. Greek. German] A man who lives on and farms his own land; a freeholder; a man of small estate in land; a gentleman farmer;-formerly, a kind of steward on an estate;-an officer in the king's household;-in a man-of-war, an inferior officer charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.
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