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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : yoh-muh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈyoʊ mən |
Definition of yeoman
Origin :- c.1300, "attendant in a noble household," of unknown origin, perhaps a contraction of Old English iunge man "young man," or from an unrecorded Old English *geaman, equivalent of Old Frisian gaman "villager," from Old English -gea "district, village," cognate with Old Frisian ga, ge, from Proto-Germanic *gaujan.
- Sense of "commoner who cultivates his land" is recorded from early 15c.; also the third order of fighting men (late 14c., below knights and squires, above knaves), hence yeomen's service "good, efficient service" (c.1600). Meaning "naval petty officer in charge of supplies" is first attested 1660s. Yeowoman first recorded 1852: "Then I am yeo-woman O the clumsy word!" [Tennyson, "The Foresters"]
- noun worker
- He was born in 1769, the son of a yeoman farmer at Churchill, in Oxfordshire.
- Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
- His father was an English yeoman; that is, a farmer who owned the farm he tilled.
- Extract from : « Captains of Industry » by James Parton
- My father was a yeoman—an independent, or, as he was sometimes styled, a gentleman-farmer.
- Extract from : « The Desert Home » by Mayne Reid
- The fool says no, the madman is the yeoman who has allowed his son to become a gentleman.
- Extract from : « Tolstoy on Shakespeare » by Leo Tolstoy
- The yeoman of the signals; a first-class petty officer in the navy.
- Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
- There was not a yeoman present who did not hope to win one of them.
- Extract from : « The Book of Romance » by Various
- The stout English yeoman was as proud in his way as was the Marquis of Elverston.
- Extract from : « The Rival Crusoes » by W.H.G. Kingston
- Mr Shirley had been a yeoman twenty years before his nephew was born.
- Extract from : « The Golden Dream » by R.M. Ballantyne
- He (the yeoman) was not for abuses,—he was for King and Constitution.
- Extract from : « My Novel, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- "We are well met," remarked the yeoman, presently, and speaking as if come to a decision.
- Extract from : « Robin Hood » by Paul Creswick
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