What is the meaning of Yeoman?
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).
A dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service.
A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing.
A subordinate, deputy, aide, or assistant.
A clerk in the US Navy, and US Coast Guard.
In a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom.
A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry, officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s.
A member of the Imperial Yeomanry, officially created in 1890s and renamed in 1907.
Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cirrochroa, of Asia and Australasia.
↑ Robert K. Barnhart, ed., Chambers Dictionary of Etymology, s.v. “yeoman” (Edinburgh: Chambers, [2008], c1988), 1253.
↑ American Heritage Dictionary, 4th edn., s.v. “yeoman”.
↑ Thomas Sheridan (1790) A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with Regard to Sound and Meaning, volume 2, C. Dilly
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