noun
Meaning 1
A Yeoman Warder
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, informal
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
Beefeater
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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CMU ARPABET: B IY1 F IY2 T ER0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
An African bird of the genus Buphagus, which feeds on the larvae of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 3
One who eats beef; a large, plump person; a well-fed servant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Examples
- 1676 (Licensed). William Wycherley, The Plain Dealer (play); reprinted in: 1981. Holland, Peter (ed.), The Plays of William Wycherley, London: Cambridge University Press, Plays by Renaissance and Restoration Dramatiats series. I.i.342-351, p. 366. [H]ere you see a bishop bowing low to a gaudy atheist, a judge to a doorkeeper, a great lord to a fishmonger or a scrivener with a jack-chain about his neck, a lawyer to a sergeant-at-arms, a velvet physician to a threadbare chemist and a supple gentleman usher to a surely beefeater, and so tread round in a preposterous huddle of ceremony to each other whilst they can hardly hold their solemn false countenances.
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noun
Meaning 4
Alternative letter-case form of Beefeater.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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noun
Meaning 5
A kind of hat worn by women resembling the headwear of a Beefeater (Yeoman Warder).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
Meaning 6
officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: yeoman, yeoman of the guard
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: bodyguard, escort
History
Etymology
From beef + eater.