Usually means: Middle-class farmer or freeholder.
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  1. yeoman: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. yeoman: Merriam-Webster
  3. yeoman: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. yeoman: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. yeoman: Collins English Dictionary
  6. yeoman: Vocabulary.com
  7. Yeoman, yeoman: Wordnik
  8. yeoman: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Yeoman, yeoman: Wiktionary
  10. yeoman: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. yeoman: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. yeoman: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. yeoman: Dictionary.com
  14. yeoman: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Yeoman (F), Yeoman (US Navy), Yeoman (United States Navy), Yeoman (Wild Cards), Yeoman (computing), Yeoman (disambiguation), Yeoman (software), Yeoman (surname), Yeoman: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Yeoman: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. yeoman: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. yeoman: Rhymezone
  19. Yeoman: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. yeoman: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. yeoman: FreeDictionary.org
  22. yeoman: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. yeoman: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Yeoman: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. yeoman: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. YEOMAN, YEOMAN, YEOMAN: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. yeoman: Genealogy Glossary
  4. yeoman: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. yeoman: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (UK) An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page. Especially, a yeoman of the guard, a member of a ceremonial bodyguard to the UK monarch (not to be confused with a Yeoman Warder).
noun:  (US) A dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service.
noun:  (historical) A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing.
noun:  A subordinate, deputy, aide, or assistant.
noun:  A Yeoman Warder.
noun:  A clerk in the US Navy, and US Coast Guard.
noun:  (nautical) In a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom.
noun:  A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry, officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s.
noun:  A member of the Imperial Yeomanry, officially created in 1890s and renamed in 1907.
noun:  Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cirrochroa, of Asia and Australasia.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation.
noun:  A town in Jefferson Township, Carroll County, Indiana, United States.

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