A man holding a small landed estate; a freeholder under the rank of a gentleman; hence vaguely, a commoner or countryman of respectable standing, esp.…
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| 释义 | society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific ranks of common people > [noun] > yeoman (10) yeomana1387 A man holding a small landed estate; a freeholder under the rank of a gentleman; hence vaguely, a commoner or countryman of respectable standing, esp.… goodman1389 A man of wealth or social standing who is not a member of the gentry or aristocracy, as a master in a craft or guild, a burgess, a yeoman, etc… estatesman1810 A Cumberland or Westmorland yeoman; = statesman, n.1 2. greycoat1866 British. A person distinguished by wearing a grey woollen coat; spec. (a) a yeoman in the former county of Cumberland (now part of Cumbria); (b) a… Subcategories:— condition, position, or station of (2) — as term of disparagement (1) — woman (3) |
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