Yeoman

Quick meaning: Yeoman is a noun meaning (US) A dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service.

Meaning

(US) A dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service.

More Meanings

1. A subordinate, deputy, aide, or assistant.
2. A Yeoman Warder.
3. A clerk in the US Navy, and US Coast Guard.
4. (nautical) In a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom.
5. A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry, officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s.
6. (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).
7. (historical) A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing.

Example Sentences

This model of production costs might alternatively be derived from a yeoman farmer model, in which households supply goods directly[.]

Word Forms

• yeomen

Synonyms for yeoman

Depending on context, synonyms include beefeater.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include beefeater, assistant, yeman, yeomanhood, yeomanry, exempt.

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