Yeoman,

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Yeoman \Yeo"man\, n.; pl. {Yeomen}. [OE. yoman, [yogh]eman,
     [yogh]oman; of uncertain origin; perhaps the first, syllable
     is akin to OFries. g[=a] district, region, G. gau, OHG. gewi,
     gouwi, Goth. gawi. [root]100.]
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     1. A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most


        respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.
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     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.
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     2. A servant; a retainer. [Obs.]
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              A yeman hadde he and servants no mo.  --Chaucer.
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     3. A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry
        cavalry. [Eng.]
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     4. (Naut.) An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner,
        or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and
        distribution of the stores.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  yeoman
       n 1: officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
            [syn: {yeoman of the guard}, {beefeater}]
       2: in former times was free and cultivated his own land

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  132 Moby Thesaurus words for "yeoman":
     Bauer, Ganymede, Hebe, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist,
     agronomist, airline hostess, airline stewardess, attendant,
     bakehead, batman, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, black gang, bodyguard,
     boilerman, bootblack, boots, bungs, cabin boy, caddie, chips,
     chore boy, coffee-planter, collective farm worker,
     commissary steward, complement, convoy, copyboy, creature, crofter,
     cropper, cultivator, cupbearer, deckhand, deckie, dependent,
     dirt farmer, dry farmer, errand boy, errand girl, escort,
     farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, feudatory, fireman, flunky,
     follower, footboy, gentleman farmer, gentleman-at-arms, gofer,
     granger, grower, guards, guardsman, gun loader, gunner, hand,
     hanger-on, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, homager,
     hospital steward, hostess, husbandman, inferior, kibbutznik,
     kolkhoznik, kulak, lackey, landing signalman, liege, liege man,
     mail orderly, minion, muzhik, myrmidon, navigator, office boy,
     office girl, oiler, orderly, page, peasant, peasant holder, peon,
     picker, planter, plowboy, plowman, praetorian guard, purser,
     radio operator, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, retainer,
     roustabout, rustic, safeguard, serf, sharecropper, slave, snip,
     snips, sower, sparks, squire, steward, stewardess, stoker, stooge,
     subordinate, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tender, tiller,
     torpedoman, trainbearer, tree farmer, truck farmer, underling,
     understrapper, usher, vassal, watch
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Yeoman, IN (town, FIPS 85886)
    Location: 40.66712 N, 86.72343 W
    Population (1990): 131 (49 housing units)
    Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Yeoman, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
     Population (2000):    96
     Housing Units (2000): 47
     Land area (2000):     0.121930 sq. miles (0.315798 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    0.121930 sq. miles (0.315798 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            85886
     Located within:       Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
     Location:             40.668138 N, 86.723597 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):    
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Yeoman, IN
      Yeoman