yeoman in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

yeoman in the PONS Dictionary

yeoman Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

Yeoman of the Guard
to do yeoman('s) service
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Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
He idealized the yeoman farmer despite being himself a gentleman plantation owner.
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Physically, he has all the strength of our best yeoman stock.
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The house at that time stood in 7 acres of land and was one of the most important yeoman houses in the village.
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He rose from a yeoman tenant farmer to a gentleman owner of the mansion house by 1700.
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Each yeoman, then mostly farmers or agricultural workers, was expected to supply his own horse and saddle.
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Many politicians from this era were yeoman farmers speaking out to protect their rights as free men.
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White inhabitants experienced the creation of patriarchial families, the evolution of kinship networks, and the formation of the gentry and yeoman classes.
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He did a yeoman service to develop the school.
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The party promoted states' rights and the primacy of the yeoman farmer over bankers, industrialists, merchants, and other monied interests.
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It was originally built in about 1500 as a wattle and daub yeoman farmer's house but has been much extended.
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