Yeomanry
[jәumәnri]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army.
(noun.) class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land.
校對:维多利亚--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The position or rank of a yeoman.
(n.) The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders.
(n.) The yeomanry cavalry.
卡梅拉校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Body of yeomen.
編輯:弗吉尼亚
例句/造句/用法:
- The yeomanry are precisely the order of people with whom I feel I can have nothing to do. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Thus speaking, he opened another hutch, and took out from it a couple of broadswords and bucklers, such as were used by the yeomanry of the period. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The public services to which the yeomanry were bound, were not less arbitrary than the private ones. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- They ought to make me a magistrate and a captain of yeomanry. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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