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Definition: Yeomanry |
YeomanryNoun1. Class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land. 2. A British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "yeomanry" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Armed force, troops, soldiery, military forces, sabaoth, the army, standing army, regulars, the line, troops of the line, militia, yeomanry, volunteers, trainband, fencible; auxiliary, bersagliere, brave; garde-nationale, garde-royale; minuteman; auxiliary forces, reserve forces; reserves, posse comitatus, national guard, gendarme, beefeater; guards, guardsman; yeomen of the guard, life guards, household troops. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Yeomanry |
| Specialty definitions using "yeomanry": Regulars. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | The yeomanry are precisely the order of people with whom I feel I can have nothing to do. |
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| "Yeomanry" is generally used as a noun (common) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Yeomanry" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (common) | 100% | 48 | 49,194 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "yeomanry": imperial yeomanry ♦ yeomanry cavalry. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
yeomanry | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "yeomanry"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pronarët e vegjël, kalorësi vullnetare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | اليوامنة جماعة صغار مالكي الأرض. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съсловието на йомените, териториална конница. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zemanstvo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سواره نظام (Cavalry, Dragoon, Horse, Horseman), سربازداوطلب , خرده مالکین . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ensemble des moyens, classe des franc-tenanciers. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | freibauernstand, freibauernschaft, Freibauern. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γεωργοί, μικροκτηματίεσ ιππείσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szabad kisbitokosság. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | classe di piccoli coltivatori diretti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | kernyn, eirinee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yeomanryay proprietários de terra, camponeses independentes. (various references) rãzeşime, cãlãraşi voluntari. (various references) сословие иоменов, мелкие землевладельцы. (various references) ceathairne (portion of population). (various references) slobodni seljaci. (various references) pequeños propietarios, clase de los labradores ricos, caballería (cavalry, chivalry, horse, knightage, knighthood), burguesi/a. (various references) odalmän (yelomanry), hemmansägare (yeoman). (various references) gönüllü süvari alayı, çiftçi sınıfı. (various references) стан йоменів. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-m-n-o-r-y-y" | |
-1 letter: anymore. | |
-2 letters: enamor, moaner, yeoman. | |
-3 letters: anomy, enorm, manor, mayor, meany, money, morae, moray, namer, onery, ramen, rayon, reman, roman, yamen, yearn. | |
-4 letters: aeon, aero, aery, amen, army, earn, eyra, eyry, mane, mano, many, mare, mayo, mean, meno, moan, mony, mora, more, morn, myna, name, nary, near, nema, noma, nome, norm, omen, omer, oyer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-m-n-o-r-y-y" | |
+3 letters: dynamometry. | |
+4 letters: eleemosynary, laryngectomy. | |
+5 letters: embryonically, hydroxylamine, syringomyelia. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Anagrams 10. Bibliography |
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