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name
A surname originating as an occupation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
A town in Jefferson Township, Carroll County, Indiana, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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noun
A dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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noun
A subordinate, deputy, aide, or assistant.
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noun
A Yeoman Warder.
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noun
A clerk in the US Navy, and US Coast Guard.
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noun
In a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry, officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s.
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noun
A member of the Imperial Yeomanry, officially created in 1890s and renamed in 1907.
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noun
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cirrochroa, of Asia and Australasia.
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noun
in former times was free and cultivated his own land
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: freeholder
noun
officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: yeoman of the guard, beefeater
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Broader terms: bodyguard, escort
History
From yeoman.
From Middle English yeman, yoman, of disputed etymology: * From Old English *ġēamann, from Proto-West Germanic *gawamann, variant of *gauwjamann (compare Old Frisian gāman (“villager”), Middle High German göuman (“peasant”)), compound of Proto-West Germanic *gawi (“shire, district”) (compare Old English -ġē, -ġēa (“district, region”) (in ælġē, Sūþriġēa), West Frisian gea, goa, Dutch gouw, German Gau) + *mann (“man”). * A contraction of yong man; compare dialectal yeomath (“aftermath”) for a possible parallel.
Across languages
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