yeoman
yeoman is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A servant; a retainer. [Obs.] A yeman hadde he and servants no mo. Chaucer.
- 2.A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry. [Eng.]
- 3.(Naut.) An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores. Yeoman of the guard, one of the bodyguard of the English sovereign, consisting of the hundred yeomen, armed with partisans, and habited in the costume of the sixteenth century. They are members of the royal household.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adolescence
- animal
- beau
- blade
- boar
- boy
- buck
- bull
- bullock
- capon
- chap
- cock
- dog
- drake
- elf
- entire
- est
- fellow
- gaffer
- gander
- gay
- gelding
- gentleman
- goat
- good
- hart
- him
- his
- horse
- husband
- lupus
- male
- man
- manhood
- manly
- married
- masculine
- master
- mister
- non
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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