yeoman

plural yeomen

1. UKAn 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).
2. USA dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service.
3. historicalA former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing.

   This model of production costs might alternatively be derived from a yeoman farmer model, in which households supply goods directly[.]

   2003, Michael Woodford, Interest and Prices, →ISBN, page 150

4. A subordinate, deputy, aide, or assistant.
5. A Yeoman Warder.
6. A clerk in the US Navy, and US Coast Guard.
7. nauticalIn a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom.
8. A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry, officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s.
9. A member of the Imperial Yeomanry, officially created in 1890s and renamed in 1907.
10. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cirrochroa, of Asia and Australasia.

plural Yeomans · alternative Yeaman · alternative Youman

1. countableuncountableA surname originating as an occupation.
2. countableuncountableA town in Jefferson Township, Carroll County, Indiana, United States.