Definitions for yeoman

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yeoman yeo·man

Spelling: [yoh-muh n]

IPA: /ˈyoʊ mən/

Yeoman is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in yeoman (aemnoy).

Definitions for yeoman

noun

1. a petty officer in a navy, having chiefly clerical duties in the U.S. Navy.
2. British. a farmer who cultivates his own land.
3. History/Historical. one of a class of lesser freeholders, below the gentry, who cultivated their own land, early admitted in England to political rights.
4. Archaic. a servant, attendant, or subordinate official in a royal or other great household. a subordinate or assistant, as of a sheriff or other official or in a craft or trade.

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, composed of, or characteristic of yeomen:
2. performed or rendered in a loyal, valiant, useful, or workmanlike manner, especially in situations that involve a great deal of effort or labor:

Origin of yeoman

1300-50; Middle English yeman, yoman, probably reduced forms of yengman, yongman, yungman, with similar sense; see young, man¹

Examples for yeoman

The yeoman of the signals; a first-class petty officer in the navy.

It is small, fits easily in a standard kitchen utility drawer, and does yeoman duty when called upon.

The rise of the yeoman class in Britain was particularly critical in foreshadowing the evolution of America.

All this suggests what could be seen as the proletarianization of the yeoman class.

There was not a yeoman present who did not hope to win one of them.

He was born in 1769, the son of a yeoman farmer at Churchill, in Oxfordshire.

My father was a yeoman—an independent, or, as he was sometimes styled, a gentleman-farmer.

The fool says no, the madman is the yeoman who has allowed his son to become a gentleman.

This low turnout is remarkable given how unfavorably Obama is viewed by much of the yeoman class.

His father was an English yeoman; that is, a farmer who owned the farm he tilled.