Thesaurus: yeoman
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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- n. A common man, or one of the class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/commonly">commonly of the first or most class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/respectable">respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.
- n. A servant; a retainer.
- n. A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry.
- n. An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.
- n. officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
- n. in former times was free and cultivated their own land
- An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters,charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.Yeoman of the guard, one of the bodyguard of the English sovereign,consisting of the hundred yeomen, armed with partisans, and habitedin the costume of the sixteenth century. They are members of theroyal household.
- n:100 n. officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch n. in former times was free and cultivated his own land