Yeoman

Noun

 * 1) An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page.
 * 2)  A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing.
 * 3) A subordinate, deputy, aide, or assistant.
 * 4) A Yeoman Warder.
 * 5) A clerk in the US navy, and US Coast Guard.
 * 6)  In a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom.
 * 7) A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s.
 * 8) A member of the Imperial Yeomanry officially created in 1890s and renamed in 1907.

Derived terms

 * chief yeoman of the signals
 * good yeoman service
 * king's yeoman
 * navigator's yeoman
 * queen's yeoman
 * traveling yeoman
 * yeoman archer


 * yeoman of the king's pantry
 * yeoman of the king's buttery
 * yeoman of the horse or carriage
 * yeoman usher of the black rod
 * yeomanry
 * yeomanry cavalry


 * yeoman's job
 * yeoman's service
 * yeoman of the stores
 * yeoman of the chamber
 * yeomen of the crown
 * yeomen of the guard

Thesaurus
Bauer, Ganymede, Hebe, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, airline hostess, airline stewardess, attendant, bakehead, batman, bellboy, bellhop, bellman, black gang, bodyguard, boilerman, bootblack, boots, bungs, cabin boy, caddie, chips, chore boy, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, commissary steward, complement, convoy, copyboy, creature, crofter, cropper, cultivator, cupbearer, deckhand, deckie, dependent, dirt farmer, dry farmer, errand boy, errand girl, escort, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, feudatory, fireman, flunky, follower, footboy, gentleman farmer, gentleman-at-arms, gofer, granger, grower, guards, guardsman, gun loader, gunner, hand, hanger-on, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, homager, hospital steward, hostess, husbandman, inferior, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, lackey, landing signalman, liege, liege man, mail orderly, minion, muzhik, myrmidon, navigator, office boy, office girl, oiler, orderly, page, peasant, peasant holder, peon, picker, planter, plowboy, plowman, praetorian guard, purser, radio operator, raiser, rancher, ranchman, reaper, retainer, roustabout, rustic, safeguard, serf, sharecropper, slave, snip, snips, sower, sparks, squire, steward, stewardess, stoker, stooge, subordinate, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tender, tiller, torpedoman, trainbearer, tree farmer, truck farmer, underling, understrapper, usher, vassal, watch

Etymology
Apparently a reduced form of youngman:.

Translations

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 * Spanish: edecán