What is the name meaning of YEOMAN. Phrases containing YEOMAN
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YEOMAN
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Czech and Slovak
Czech and Slovak : variant of Zeman ‘yeoman farmer’.Jewish (Ashkenazic) variant of Seemann.English : variant spelling of Seaman.
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English
English : variant of Yeoman.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : status name, from Middle English yoman, yeman, used of an attendant of relatively high status in a noble household, ranking between a Sergeant and a Groom, or between a Squire and a Page. The word appears to derive from a compound of Old English geong ‘young’ + mann ‘man’. Later in the Middle English period it came to be used of a modest independent freeholder, and this latter sense may well lie behind some examples of the surname.English and Scottish : topographic name, an expanded form of Yeo.
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English (chiefly Midlands)
English (chiefly Midlands) : patronymic from Yeoman 1.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the many places, large and small, called Bradford; in particular the city in West Yorkshire, which originally rose to prosperity as a wool town. There are others in Derbyshire, Devon, Dorset, Greater Manchester, Norfolk, Somerset, and elsewhere. They are all named with Old English brÄd ‘broad’ + ford ‘ford’.This name was brought independently to North American by many different bearers from the 17th century onward. William Bradford (1590–1657), born in Austerfield in South Yorkshire, England, the son of a yeoman farmer, was among the Pilgrim Fathers who emigrated to America on the Mayflower in 1620. He was a signer of the Mayflower Compact and in 1621 he was elected governor of Plymouth colony, being re-elected thirty times.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived among rushes, from Middle English rush (a collective singular, Old English rysc), or perhaps an occupational name for someone who wove mats, baskets, and other articles out of rushes.Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Ruis ‘descendant of Ros’, a personal name perhaps derived from ros ‘wood’. In Connacht it has also been used as a translation of Ó Luachra (see Loughrey).Irish : Anglicized form (translation) of Gaelic Ó Fuada, ‘descendant of Fuada’ a personal name meaning ‘hasty’, ‘rushing’ (see Foody).Altered spelling of German Rüsch or Rusch (see Rusch) or Rosch.Benjamin Rush (1745–1813), a physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in the PA farming community of Byberry. He was descended from John Rush, a yeoman from Oxfordshire, England, who came to Byberry in 1683.
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English
English : variant of Yeomans.
Boy/Male
English
Retainer.
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, British, English
Retainer; Attendant
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of Yeoman
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A servant; a retainer.
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A yeoman.
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The collective body of yeomen, or freeholders.
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A man well born; one of good family; one above the condition of a yeoman.
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The position or rank of a yeoman.
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Pertaining to a yeoman; becoming or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanlike.
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People of education and good breeding; in England, in a restricted sense, those between the nobility and the yeomanry.
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An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.
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A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.
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The yeomanry cavalry.
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A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry.
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Resembling, or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanly.