Yeoman meaning

Noun: yeoman

Pronunciation: (yow-mun)

Yeoman meaning:

• An attendant in a royal or noble household.

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Quotations:  Ralph Waldo Emerson – But the strong and healthy yeoman and husbands of the land, the self-sustaining class of inventive and industrious men, fear no competition or superiority. Come what will, their faculty cannot be spared.

Charles Krauthammer – Baseball is so modestly republican. The World Series is a continuation of the season by other means. Played in real towns, it is a warded, democratically, to the city with the most wins, not the best caterers. And the players are built to human, yeoman scale. Footballers wear uniforms designed to make them mammoth and interchangeable, like the products of an over sized assembly line. Baseball outfits are meant to betray the real body underneath. In baseball’s perfectly American balance of anarchy and order, uniforms are worn. But republican flannels, for God’s sake, not the pads and helmets of a Nixonian Swiss guard.

Michio Kaku – Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

David Miller – Frankly, they are doing a yeoman’s job with the budget they have been given.

Frank Haith – I didn’t think we played that poorly, I just think State played really well. They shot the ball tremendously that day and they were playing at a high level. I told Herb after the game that he had a heck of a team. I think they are the second best team in the league right now. It will take a yeoman’s effort for us to beat them.

Sample sentences:

1. Yeoman is the one who performs great and loyal service.
2. Yeoman of the guard is a member of a military corps attached to the British royal household that serves as ceremonial attendants of the sovereign and as warders of the Tower of London.
3. She does yeoman work all the time.
4. They just did a yeoman’s job on the inside. They were solid defensively and did not allow many easy looks inside.
5. From our perspective, he’s done a yeoman’s job of bringing a very attractive and a very acceptable and large number of people each week. The thing about George that distinguishes him from almost every other star we work with is that he has literally been involved with every single stage of development and execution of the series.
6. While James is relatively young, there was a feeling he had done a yeoman’s work in the things he had undertaken. Primarily, it was for his work as sports editor, but he has worked with a number of sports interns from the high school, and the training they receive in journalism has gotten additional attention.
7. You’ve done a yeoman’s job of getting this to where it is today.
8. He was a yeoman who was free and cultivated his own land.
9. My parents belonged to the yeoman class and there is some obscurity about my career.
10. She was the daughter of a yeoman who owned a farm near this town.