yeoman
noun
a petty officer in a navy, having chiefly clerical duties in the U.S. Navy.
yeomen
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pluralof yeoman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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No banks equivalent to those that proliferated in 18th-century England existed in America, and many hoped a republic of yeomen farmers could do without them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Federalists, typified by Manhattanite Alexander Hamilton, desired a restless, churning urban nation and opposed the Jeffersonian vision of a republic of rural yeomen.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
Their style of play was seen to be "clumsy and oafish... like that of medieval yeomen".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2020
Miscreant yeomen who poached a swan egg, or harassed nesting swans, or — heaven forbid — ate a swan could be punished by a year and a day in jail.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2018
Besides the garrison and the household there were the yeomen from the town and those who had sought refuge when the portcullis was raised.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
