Yeoman is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for YEOMAN in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a member of a class of small farmers, usually freeholders, the next grade below gentlemen
• a man holding and cultivating a small landed estate; a freeholder.
• a person qualified for certain duties and rights, such as to serve on juries and vote for the knight of the shire, by virtue of possessing free land of an annual value of 40 shillings.
• a servant in a royal or noble household, ranking between a sergeant and a groom or a squire and a page.
• a member of the yeomanry force.
• (in the Royal and other Commonwealth navies) a petty officer concerned with signalling.
• a petty officer in the US navy performing clerical duties on board ship.
• A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.
• A servant; a retainer.
• A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry.
• An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.
• officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
• in former times was free and cultivated his own land
• farmer owning and farming their own land
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an independent farmer
• farmer owning and farming his own land

Words related to YEOMAN

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Words that contain YEOMAN

yeomanly16 yeomanry16 yeomanries15

How to use YEOMAN in a sentence

• Well did Robin Hood hold his own that day as a mid-country yeoman.
• Lay by thy mantle of melancholy, and strive to lead a joyous yeoman life for three stout days.
• Then the Beggar swung his staff also, and struck a mighty blow at Robin, which the yeoman turned.
• Beside young Partington walked a yeoman clad in blue, and behind came three others, two in Lincoln green and one in scarlet.
• Moreover, as he looked at Robin Hood, and saw the yeoman look so like what he knew himself to be, he began to doubt and to think that mayhap he was the great outlaw in real sooth.
• Then Sir Robert came straight forward to where Robin Hood stood, and he spoke to the yeoman in a cold, stern voice.
• She was married to a substantial yeoman, who rented an estate in this place, the property of lord Thomas Villiers.
• Among the lower grade of officers in a man-of-war, that of Yeoman is not the least important.
• As its title implies, the romance is suggested by the life and adventures of Hereward, a Saxon yeoman who flourished about 1070.
• There is the yeoman Percy, the father of Mary whom Zamorna loved.
• His Peter Plymley letters are remarkable examples of the way in which one yeoman speaks to another.
• The member for Birmingham is stout, bluff, and hearty, looking very much like a prosperous, well-dressed English yeoman.
• And even the honest yeoman, a person who then appears to have appreciated learning, and often to have brought up his boy to the church, united in the same praiseworthy object.
• His name, I learned, was James Allardyce, and his rank was something above that of a yeoman.
• The decay of home industries was also a heavy blow to the smaller yeoman and the peasant proprietor.
• Her sister, who told the story, was the wife of a leading yeoman in the Vale of Grasmere, and they were an affectionate pair, and greatly respected by every one who knew them.
• Etzel then recognized him as a warrior who had been a hostage with him along with Walthar of Spain and who had done him yeoman service.
• Thus the patricians and their clients might escape the storm which destroyed the isolated yeoman.
• Hardy, of Johannesburg, who happened to be on a visit to the town, and who, though without official position, rendered yeoman service throughout the siege.
• The would-be Yeoman would become more and more nervous, while his comrades rode by with jeering glances, and the passengers stood still.
• Little brown Chrissy taught the bold Yeoman a lesson in her own quiet way.
• Abraham Bright was a Wiltshire yeoman, who, early in the 18th century, removed to Coventry, where his descendants remained, and where, in 1775, Jacob Bright was born.
• Well, there he lived with his own bit of land, for he was a yeoman, he was, and the Clatworthys had lived up to Loudacott hundreds of years, as he used to tell me.
• They are one of the few great yeoman families left in the land.
• He has rendered yeoman service to the municipal affairs of the city, having sat on many committees appointed to deal with bills promoted by the Corporation.
• Joseph Centlivre, yeoman of the mouth to his late Majesty.
• His father, a yeoman farmer, died a few months after his marriage, and never saw his son.
• Air-raids evidently do not count with this gallant yeoman.
• Sir knight, said the yeoman, I pray you hold me excused of that, for that I may not do.
• It furnished the one strong, well-disciplined organization that New France possessed, and its missionaries blazed the way for both yeoman and trader wherever they went.
• Beneath a somewhat ungainly exterior the yeoman and the trader of New France concealed qualities of cunning, tact, and quick judgment to a surprising degree.
• The Revolutionary War summoned this noble yeoman to arms once more.
• And yet behind that ardour there was, in Arthur Banks, at least, a hint of determination and shrewdness that I felt must be inherited from the sound yeoman stock of his father.
• In that neighbourhood dwelt a comely maiden, the only daughter of a substantial yeoman, of the name of Oskatell.

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