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单词 yeoman
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Definition of yeoman in English:

yeoman

nounPlural yeomen ˈjəʊmənˈjoʊmən
  • 1historical A man holding and cultivating a small landed estate; a freeholder.

    〈史〉自耕农;小土地私有者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Until more recently, historical accounts of nonslaveholding whites of the antebellum Southeast have focused heavily on yeomen and sharecroppers.
    • For the agricultural writer Arthur Young, yeomen were only freeholders who were not gentry, and the same definition was used by witnesses before the 1833 Select Committee on Agriculture.
    • They rearranged their estates to create larger tenant farms on rack rents, with a decline in small yeomen farmers with customary tenure or freeholds.
    • The early Republican ideal of the yeoman farmer was giving way to the virtues of urban capitalism and concern for, or fear of, the urban masses.
    • A market revolution occurred as a yeoman and cash crop agriculture and capitalist manufacturing replaced artisan economy.
    • Around 1700 they had less wealth than yeomen in each region, but by 1810 they owned as much personal estate as yeomen and were approaching the wealth of farmers.
    • It is at this point that we see the emergence of the yeoman farmer: a peasant smallholder with up to 100 acres of land.
    • The poorly-educated son of a yeoman farmer, his social graces, and those of his wife, left something to be desired.
    • Those in the middle of society, whether yeomen farmers or tradesmen, prospered.
    • A virtuous citizenry, which Jefferson considered essential to a republican form of government, was most reliably constituted of yeomen farmers he believed.
    1. 1.1 A person qualified for certain duties and rights, such as to serve on juries and vote for the knight of the shire, by virtue of possessing free land of an annual value of 40 shillings.
      〈史〉自由民(拥有私有土地,且年收入达40先令,有资格履行某些义务和享受某些权利如参加陪审团及选举郡议员等的土地私有者)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As rumours of the impending rising grew stronger the Government ordered John Derenzy to form a party of yeomen in the area.
      • The event at the Charterhouse, where the young Elizabeth I stayed before acceding to the English throne, featured musicians, a court jester and yeomen guards in a bid to recreate the regal splendour of the Tudor age.
      • The hoplite's presence on the battlefield was a reflection of his own free status in the polis community and thus reinforced his privileged position as a free yeoman farmer and voting citizen.
      • These folks here at the sheriff's office have done a yeoman's job for the citizens of this county.
  • 2historical A servant in a royal or noble household, ranking between a sergeant and a groom or a squire and a page.

    〈史〉(王室或贵族的)侍从

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One is a canon; the other his yeoman (servant). The Host welcomes them and asks whether either has a tale to tell.
    • Throughout the medieval period the term yeoman was used within the royal and noble households to indicate a servant's rank, degree, position or status.
    • One contemporary account notes that before her visit to Croydon in April and May 1585 a gentleman usher called Francis Coot and nine yeomen and grooms spent eight days making ready for her Majesty the Bishop's house.
    • Popular printed portraits of Elizabeth may have been more expensive but they would have been in reach of yeomen, artisans, clerks and many others who lived above a subsistance income.
    • In the 17th century it developed into a general term for the lord of the manor, well below the level of nobility, but far above yeomen.
    • In other words, whose servant is the yeoman, the squire's servant or the knight's servant?
  • 3historical A member of the yeomanry force.

    〈英〉义勇骑兵队队员

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many stories told about O'Keefe recount his daring and athletic escapes from pursuing yeomen and soldiers.
    • The suffering caused is remembered in the many stories about women fleeing their homes and taking refuge for fear of soldier and yeoman repression.
  • 4(in the Royal and other Commonwealth navies) a petty officer concerned with signalling.

    (英国皇家海军或英联邦国家海军中)司旗灯信号的军士

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A signalling (tactical communications) petty officer in the British Royal Navy (known as a 'Yeoman of Signals').
    1. 4.1 A petty officer in the US navy performing clerical duties on board ship.
      (美国海军的)文书军士
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Gary was assigned basic training in Orlando ... serving as Operations Yeoman and Squadron Admin Awards Petty Officer.
      • For cold weather wear there was a navy blue cape. The normal Yeoman's rating badge was worn on the jacket's left sleeve.
      • US Navy yeoman Jack Adams witnessed the war in the Pacific.
      • Petty Officer, U.S. Navy enlisted rate insignia; comparative military ranks ... such as MM for Machinist's Mate, QM for Quartermaster, or YN for Yeoman.
      • As a young Yeoman Petty Officer, Hal was assigned to the U.S.S. COLORADO.

Phrases

  • yeoman service

    • Efficient or useful help in need.

      及时有效的帮助;雪中送炭

      the minister has performed yeoman service for Mulroney
      Example sentencesExamples
      • During the unprecedented ‘great deluge’ of November 1978, which claimed several lives and destroyed property in and around this hill station, the club rendered yeoman service to many victims.
      • The Rotary Club, doing a yeoman service to the poor and the needy, has also been carrying on the arduous task of identifying and honouring those upholding the professional values and maintaining dignity in their professions.
      • The Institute as is its practice will present the ‘Sangita Kala Visharada’ Award to a senior artiste who has done yeoman service in the field of Indian music, art and culture and who also fits the theme of the festival.
      • Of all the uniformed services, it is the Scouts and Guides Movement, which seems to have been relegated to the background, though it has rendered a yeoman service to society.
      • But it is not ‘well-equipped’, as claimed by the District Collector, Gyanesh Kumar, whose yeoman service has helped materialise the park in record time.
      • Ships such as HMAS Bombo and HMAS Coongoola provided yeoman service taking equipment and stores to the remote Anjo Peninsula in WA, helping in the construction of the Truscott airfield.
      • Several organisations and non-governmental organisations are doing yeoman service to society by promoting activities that bring out the faculties among the people, be it in sports or music.
      • Percy Brown has done yeoman service in painstakingly documenting the architecture of India in his book Indian Architecture: Islamic Period.
      • Memon Education and Welfare Society, MESCO, Khair-E-Ummat Trust and others are providing yeoman service to the community by giving financial assistance.
      • I think here particularly of such ‘older’ Seniors as Jimmy and John, two stalwarts who have given, in cliched terms, yeoman service to the club over many years.

Derivatives

  • yeomanly

  • adjective ˈjəʊmənliˈjoʊmənli
    • When Miller had offered his biography in the wake of Winslow's, he had simply shrugged off his competitor's contribution as a yeomanly effort - solid, thorough, reliable, and entirely beside the point.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Café Rabelais is a likable, yeomanly restaurant that stays true to its mission and keeps trying to improve.
      • He did a yeomanly job of handling all of the style demands of such a diverse selection of compositions.
      • Thoughtful jazz lovers of all degrees of musical literacy ought to be delighted and enlightened by Gioia's yeomanly effort.
      • A yeomanly tear was pricking at the corner of my eye as I stepped out across a small junction and was nearly mown down by a scooter.
      • After years of yeomanly service, it had begun to falter.

Origin

Middle English: probably from young + man.

Rhymes

Bowman, Oklahoman, Oman, omen, Roman, showman, showmen, yeomen

Definition of yeoman in US English:

yeoman

nounˈyōmənˈjoʊmən
  • 1historical A man holding and cultivating a small landed estate; a freeholder.

    〈史〉自耕农;小土地私有者

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The poorly-educated son of a yeoman farmer, his social graces, and those of his wife, left something to be desired.
    • Those in the middle of society, whether yeomen farmers or tradesmen, prospered.
    • It is at this point that we see the emergence of the yeoman farmer: a peasant smallholder with up to 100 acres of land.
    • For the agricultural writer Arthur Young, yeomen were only freeholders who were not gentry, and the same definition was used by witnesses before the 1833 Select Committee on Agriculture.
    • Until more recently, historical accounts of nonslaveholding whites of the antebellum Southeast have focused heavily on yeomen and sharecroppers.
    • The early Republican ideal of the yeoman farmer was giving way to the virtues of urban capitalism and concern for, or fear of, the urban masses.
    • Around 1700 they had less wealth than yeomen in each region, but by 1810 they owned as much personal estate as yeomen and were approaching the wealth of farmers.
    • A virtuous citizenry, which Jefferson considered essential to a republican form of government, was most reliably constituted of yeomen farmers he believed.
    • They rearranged their estates to create larger tenant farms on rack rents, with a decline in small yeomen farmers with customary tenure or freeholds.
    • A market revolution occurred as a yeoman and cash crop agriculture and capitalist manufacturing replaced artisan economy.
    1. 1.1 A person qualified for certain duties and rights, such as to serve on juries and vote for the knight of the shire, by virtue of possessing free land of an annual value of 40 shillings.
      〈史〉自由民(拥有私有土地,且年收入达40先令,有资格履行某些义务和享受某些权利如参加陪审团及选举郡议员等的土地私有者)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • These folks here at the sheriff's office have done a yeoman's job for the citizens of this county.
      • The event at the Charterhouse, where the young Elizabeth I stayed before acceding to the English throne, featured musicians, a court jester and yeomen guards in a bid to recreate the regal splendour of the Tudor age.
      • As rumours of the impending rising grew stronger the Government ordered John Derenzy to form a party of yeomen in the area.
      • The hoplite's presence on the battlefield was a reflection of his own free status in the polis community and thus reinforced his privileged position as a free yeoman farmer and voting citizen.
  • 2historical A servant in a royal or noble household, ranking between a sergeant and a groom or a squire and a page.

    〈史〉(王室或贵族的)侍从

    Example sentencesExamples
    • One is a canon; the other his yeoman (servant). The Host welcomes them and asks whether either has a tale to tell.
    • In the 17th century it developed into a general term for the lord of the manor, well below the level of nobility, but far above yeomen.
    • Popular printed portraits of Elizabeth may have been more expensive but they would have been in reach of yeomen, artisans, clerks and many others who lived above a subsistance income.
    • One contemporary account notes that before her visit to Croydon in April and May 1585 a gentleman usher called Francis Coot and nine yeomen and grooms spent eight days making ready for her Majesty the Bishop's house.
    • Throughout the medieval period the term yeoman was used within the royal and noble households to indicate a servant's rank, degree, position or status.
    • In other words, whose servant is the yeoman, the squire's servant or the knight's servant?
  • 3historical A member of the yeomanry force.

    〈英〉义勇骑兵队队员

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many stories told about O'Keefe recount his daring and athletic escapes from pursuing yeomen and soldiers.
    • The suffering caused is remembered in the many stories about women fleeing their homes and taking refuge for fear of soldier and yeoman repression.
  • 4(in the British Royal Navy and other Commonwealth navies) a petty officer concerned with signaling.

    (英国皇家海军或英联邦国家海军中)司旗灯信号的军士

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A signalling (tactical communications) petty officer in the British Royal Navy (known as a 'Yeoman of Signals').
    1. 4.1 A petty officer in the US Navy or Coast Guard performing clerical duties on board ship.
      (美国海军的)文书军士
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Gary was assigned basic training in Orlando ... serving as Operations Yeoman and Squadron Admin Awards Petty Officer.
      • Petty Officer, U.S. Navy enlisted rate insignia; comparative military ranks ... such as MM for Machinist's Mate, QM for Quartermaster, or YN for Yeoman.
      • As a young Yeoman Petty Officer, Hal was assigned to the U.S.S. COLORADO.
      • For cold weather wear there was a navy blue cape. The normal Yeoman's rating badge was worn on the jacket's left sleeve.
      • US Navy yeoman Jack Adams witnessed the war in the Pacific.

Phrases

  • yeoman service

    • Efficient or useful help in need.

      及时有效的帮助;雪中送炭

      the minister has performed yeoman service for Mulroney
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Ships such as HMAS Bombo and HMAS Coongoola provided yeoman service taking equipment and stores to the remote Anjo Peninsula in WA, helping in the construction of the Truscott airfield.
      • The Rotary Club, doing a yeoman service to the poor and the needy, has also been carrying on the arduous task of identifying and honouring those upholding the professional values and maintaining dignity in their professions.
      • Of all the uniformed services, it is the Scouts and Guides Movement, which seems to have been relegated to the background, though it has rendered a yeoman service to society.
      • I think here particularly of such ‘older’ Seniors as Jimmy and John, two stalwarts who have given, in cliched terms, yeoman service to the club over many years.
      • Several organisations and non-governmental organisations are doing yeoman service to society by promoting activities that bring out the faculties among the people, be it in sports or music.
      • During the unprecedented ‘great deluge’ of November 1978, which claimed several lives and destroyed property in and around this hill station, the club rendered yeoman service to many victims.
      • Memon Education and Welfare Society, MESCO, Khair-E-Ummat Trust and others are providing yeoman service to the community by giving financial assistance.
      • But it is not ‘well-equipped’, as claimed by the District Collector, Gyanesh Kumar, whose yeoman service has helped materialise the park in record time.
      • The Institute as is its practice will present the ‘Sangita Kala Visharada’ Award to a senior artiste who has done yeoman service in the field of Indian music, art and culture and who also fits the theme of the festival.
      • Percy Brown has done yeoman service in painstakingly documenting the architecture of India in his book Indian Architecture: Islamic Period.

Origin

Middle English: probably from young + man.

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