Yeoman Definition

yōmən
yeomen
noun
yeomen
An attendant or manservant in a royal or noble household.
Webster's New World
A yeoman of the guard.
American Heritage
An assistant or subordinate, as to a sheriff.
Webster's New World
A person who owns and cultivates a relatively small tract of land.
Webster's New World
A freeholder of a class below the gentry, who worked his own land.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
adjective
Of or characteristic of yeomen.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Yeoman

Noun

Singular:
yeoman
Plural:
yeomen

Origin of Yeoman

  • Middle English yoman, yeman, from Old English *gÄ“aman (compare Old Frisian gāman (“villager"), Middle Dutch goymann "˜arbiter'), compound of gÄ“, gÄ“a "˜district, region' (in ælgÄ“, SÅ«thrigÄ“a), from Proto-Germanic *gawi (compare West Frisian gea, goa, Dutch gouw, German Gau), and mann "˜man'. More at man.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English yeman, yoman perhaps contraction of yong man young man (yong young young) (man man man) or from Old English gēaman (from or akin to Old Frisian gāman villager) (gā region, district) (man man man-1 in Indo-European roots)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Yeoman Sentence Examples

  • He is the ideal yeoman as Arthur is the ideal knight.

  • He was the son of a yeoman, who rented a farm " of three or four pounds by year at the uttermost."

  • Abraham Bright was a Wiltshire yeoman, who, early in the 18th century, removed to Coventry, where his descendants remained, and where, in 1775, Jacob Bright was born.

  • It performed yeoman service in getting the 9/11 oral histories released.

  • David somehow secured the favour of Henry VII., to whom he seems to have been yeoman of the guard.

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