Word Meanings - YEOMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores. Yeoman of the guard, one of the bodyguard of the English sovereign, consisting of the hundred yeomen, armed
Additional info about word: YEOMAN
An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores. Yeoman of the guard, one of the bodyguard of the English sovereign, consisting of the hundred yeomen, armed with partisans, and habited in the costume of the sixteenth century. They are members of the royal household. (more info) origin; perhaps the first, syllable is akin to OFries. ga district, 1. A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born. Note: A yeoman in England is considered as next in order to the gentry. The word is little used in the United States, unless as a title in law proceedings and instruments, designating occupation, and this only in particular States. 2. A servant; a retainer. A yeman hadde he and servants no mo. Chaucer. 3. A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of YEOMAN)
- Countryman
- Rustic
- clown
- boor
- compatriot
- swain
- yeoman
- bus
- bandman
- farmer
- agriculturist
- laborer
- peasant
- fellow-countryman
- fellow-subject
- fellowcitizen
- subject
- citizen
- inhabitant
- native
Related words: (words related to YEOMAN)
- SUBJECTION
1. The act of subjecting, or of bringing under the dominion of another; the act of subduing. The conquest of the kingdom, and subjection of the rebels. Sir M. Hale. 2. The state of being subject, or under the power, control, and government - SUBJECTIST
One skilled in subjective philosophy; a subjectivist. - SUBJECTNESS
Quality of being subject. - FARMERESS
A woman who farms. - CLOWNAGE
Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. B. Jonson. - RUSTICAL
Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n. - SWAINLING
A little swain. - PEASANT
A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries. Syn. -- Countryman; rustic; swain; hind. (more info) with the p.pr. of verbs), païsan, F. paysan, fr. OF. & F. pays - PEASANTLY
Peasantlike. Milton. - FARMERY
The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead. - RUSTICATE
To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope. - CLOWN
Fries. kl clown, dial. Sw. klunn log, Dan. klunt log block, and E. 1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney. 2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child - CLOWNISH
Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv. Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill- bred; boorish; rustic; - YEOMANRY
1. The position or rank of a yeoman. "His estate of yeomanry." Chaucer. 2. The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders. The enfranchised yeomanry began to feel an instinct for dominion. Bancroft. 3. The yeomanry cavalry. Yeomanry cavalry, - RUSTICITY
The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric - CLOWNISHNESS
The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke. - SUBJECTLESS
Having no subject. - CITIZENSHIP
The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen. - NATIVE
1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances - SUBJECTIVE
Modified by, or making prominent, the individuality of a writer or an artist; as, a subjective drama or painting; a subjective writer. Syn. -- See Objective. Subjective sensation , one of the sensations occurring when stimuli due to internal causes - ELIMINATIVE
Relating to, or carrying on, elimination. - NOMINATIVELY
In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative. - EMANATIVE
Issuing forth; effluent. - DOMINATIVE
Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys. - REGNATIVE
Ruling; governing. - COLABORER
One who labors with another; an associate in labor. - COORDINATIVE
Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs. - UNDERLABORER
An assistant or subordinate laborer. Locke. - DENOMINATIVE
Connotative; as, a denominative name. 3. Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable. The least denominative part of time is a minute. Cocker. (more info) 1. Conferring a denomination or name.