yeomanˈyoʊ mən
yeoman (n)
- plural
- yeomen
English Definitions:
yeoman, yeoman of the guard, beefeater (noun)
officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
yeoman (noun)
in former times was free and cultivated his own land
yeoman (Noun)
An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page.
yeoman (Noun)
A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing.
yeoman (Noun)
A subordinate, deputy, aide, or assistant.
yeoman (Noun)
A Yeoman Warder.
yeoman (Noun)
A clerk in the US navy, and US Coast Guard.
yeoman (Noun)
In a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom.
yeoman (Noun)
A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s.
yeoman (Noun)
A member of the Imperial Yeomanry officially created in 1890s and renamed in 1907.
Yeoman
Yeoman refers chiefly to a free man owning his own farm, especially from the Elizabethan era to the 17th century. Work requiring a great deal of effort or labour, such as would be done by a yeoman farmer, came to be described as yeoman's work. Thus yeoman became associated with hard toil. Yeoman was also a rank or position in a noble household, with titles such as Yeoman of the Chamber, Yeoman of the Crown, Yeoman Usher, and King's Yeoman. Most of these, including the Yeomen of the Guard, had the duty of protecting the sovereign and other dignitaries as a bodyguard, and carrying out various duties for the sovereign as assigned to his office. In modern British usage, yeoman may specifically refer to ⁕a member of a reserve military unit called a yeomanry, similar to the militia, traditionally raised from moderately wealthy commoners in England and Wales, and today part of the Territorial Army; ⁕a member of the Yeomen of the Guard ⁕a member of the Yeomen Warders of the Tower of London ⁕a non-commissioned officer usually with the rank of staff sergeant or Warrant Officer Class 1 in the Royal Corps of Signals in the British Army, an appointment achieved upon completion of a 14-month technical course.
Yeoman
Yeoman is a noun originally referring either to one who owns and cultivates land or to the middle ranks of servants in an English royal or noble household. The term was first documented in mid-14th-century England. The 14th century also witnessed the rise of the yeoman longbow archer during the Hundred Years' War, and the yeoman outlaws celebrated in the Robin Hood ballads. Yeomen also joined the English Navy during the Hundred Years' War as seamen and archers. In the early 15th century, yeoman was the rank of chivalry between page and squire. By the late 17th century, yeoman became a rank in the new Royal Navy for the common seamen who were in charge of ship's stores, such as foodstuffs, gunpowder, and sails. References to the emerging social stratum of wealthy land-owning commoners began to appear after 1429. In that year, the Parliament of England re-organized the House of Commons into counties and boroughs, with voting rights granted to all freeholders. The Act of 1430 restricted voting rights to those freeholders whose land value exceeded 40 shillings. These yeomen would eventually become a social stratum of commoners below the landed gentry, but above the husbandmen. This stratum later embodied the political and economic ideas of the English and Scottish enlightenments, and transplanted those ideas to the Thirteen English colonies in North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. The yeoman farmers of those colonies became citizen soldiers during the American Revolution against Great Britain. The 19th century saw a revival of interest in the medieval period with English Romantic literature. The yeoman outlaws of the ballads were refashioned into heroes fighting for justice under the law and the rights of freeborn Englishmen.
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