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Yeoman — is noun used to indicate a variety of positions or social classes. In the 16th century, a yeoman was also a farmer of middling social status who owned his own land and often farmed it himself; an equivalent in Germany is Freibauer ( freehold… … Wikipedia
Yeoman (disambiguation) — Yeoman may refer to:Types of people* A freeborn servant in a royal or noble household of high standing, below that of a squire, and above pages and grooms; equivalent to a sergeant or corporal depending on status * Yeoman, a late medieval British … Wikipedia
yeoman — /yoh meuhn/, n., pl. yeomen, adj. n. 1. a petty officer in a navy, having chiefly clerical duties in the U.S. Navy. 2. Brit. a farmer who cultivates his own land. 3. Hist. one of a class of lesser freeholders, below the gentry, who cultivated… … Universalium
farmer — Synonyms and related words: Bauer, Internal Revenue Service, accumulator, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, assessor, bill collector, boor, bucolic, bumpkin, clod, clodhopper, clown, coffee planter, collection agent,… … Moby Thesaurus
farmer — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, large, large scale ▪ small, small scale ▪ a new plan to help the small farmer ▪ peasant … Collocations dictionary
yeoman — Synonyms and related words: Bauer, Ganymede, Hebe, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, airline hostess, airline stewardess, attendant, bakehead, batman, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, black gang, bodyguard, boilerman, bootblack,… … Moby Thesaurus
farmer — In an older meaning, the tenant or lessee of a farm; the eldest son of such tenant or lessee; a yeoman. In the modern sense of the term, a person who earns his living by, or follows the occupation or profession of farming or agriculture, whether… … Ballentine's law dictionary
Yeoman — Recorded in the spellings of Yeoman, Yeman, and Yeomans, this is a very traditional English surname. It derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century word geong meaning young , plus mann , meaning a worker. Over the centuries this developed into… … Surnames reference
yeoman — [14] Etymologically, a yeoman is probably simply a ‘young man’; indeed originally the word denoted a ‘junior household servant’, between a squire and a page in rank. It started life as yongman, a compound of Middle English yong ‘young’ and man,… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
yeoman — [14] Etymologically, a yeoman is probably simply a ‘young man’; indeed originally the word denoted a ‘junior household servant’, between a squire and a page in rank. It started life as yongman, a compound of Middle English yong ‘young’ and man,… … Word origins
farmer — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. planter, grower, breeder, livestock breeder, stockman, agriculturist, agriculturalist, agronomist, rancher, dirt farmer, tenant farmer, tenant, lessee, homesteader, granger, husbandman, producer, tiller of the soil,… … English dictionary for students
