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yeoman🔊

(UK) An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page.

(US) A dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service.

(historical) A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing.

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The rencontre was at a happy moment for Edward, as his uncle had been just eyeing wistfully, with something of a feeling like envy, the chubby boys of the stout yeoman whose mansion was building by his direction.

A subordinate, deputy, aide, or assistant.

A Yeoman Warder.

A clerk in the US Navy, and US Coast Guard.

(nautical) In a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom.

A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry, officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s.

A member of the Imperial Yeomanry, officially created in 1890s and renamed in 1907.

Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cirrochroa, of Asia and Australasia.