Yeoman

['jəʊmən] or ['jomən]

解释:

(noun.) in former times was free and cultivated his own land.

(noun.) officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch.

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解释:

(n.) A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.

(n.) A servant; a retainer.

(n.) A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry.

(n.) An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.

整理:皮尔斯

同义词及近义词:

n. Freeholder, commoner, farmer.

整理:普雷斯利

解释:

n. in early English history a common menial attendant but after the fifteenth century one of a class of small freeholders forming the next grade below gentlemen: a man of small estate any small farmer or countryman above the grade of labourer: an officer of the royal household: a member of the yeomanry cavalry: (Shak.) a journeyman assistant: a gentleman in a royal or noble household ranking between a sergeant and a groom.—adj. Yeo′manly of yeoman's rank: humble and honest.—adv. staunchly bravely.—n. Yeo′manry the collective body of yeomen or smaller freeholders: a cavalry volunteer force in Great Britain formed during the wars of the French Revolution its organisation by counties under the lords-lieutenant raised and drilled locally the men providing their own horses and uniform.—Yeomen of the guard a veteran company of picked soldiers employed in conjunction with the gentlemen-at-arms on grand occasions as the sovereign's bodyguard—constituted a corps in 1485 by Henry VII. and still wearing the costume of that period; Yeoman's service powerful aid such as came from the yeomen in the English armies of early times.

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