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Definition: YEOMEN |
YEOMENPlural1. Of Yeoman |
Date "YEOMEN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (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: YEOMEN |
| English words defined with "YEOMEN": Exon ♦ Yeoman of the guard. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "YEOMEN": Allan-a-Dale ♦ Beefeaters, Buphagos ♦ Lictors ♦ Yeomen of the Guard. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "YEOMEN": Yeoman. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Yeomen of the Guard (1974) Highlights from The Yeomen of the Guard (1907) The Yeomen of the Guard (1982) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Yeomen (F) Mabel N. Croft (left center) and Frances Gormley (right) with two of the hospital's patients, November 1918. Note beret-type hat worn by Mabel Croft. Credit: NAVY. |  | Military and civilian personnel in a Navy Department office in the Main Navy or Munitions Buildings, in 1918 or early 1919. Many of the women present are Navy Yeomen (F). There are two male Chief Yeomen at the first two rows of desks and typewriters on most desks. Note name tag for "Miss Anderson" in the lower right foreground. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Pose for a "Tall and Short" photograph, while visiting New York City, May 1919. They were part of a contingent of 250 Yeomen (F) who were sent to New York from Washington, D.C., to take part in the Victory Loan drive. Credit: NAVY. |  | Yeomen (F) welcoming the Secretary of Navy, Josephus Daniels, on return to Washington from overseas, new Navy building, Washington, D.C., May 19, 1919. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "YEOMEN" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 95.56% of the time. "YEOMEN" is used about 90 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 (plural) | 95.56% | 86 | 35,638 |
| Noun (common) | 3.33% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.11% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 90 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "YEOMEN": yeomen of the guard. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "YEOMEN": yeomen-tailors. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "YEOMEN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Chinese | 文书上士 (Yeoman). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | szabad kisbirtokos (yeoman), raktáros (storekeeper, yeoman), raktárnok (storekeeper, yeoman), raktárfelügyelő (yeoman), kisgazda (crofter, smallholder, yeoman), irodista altiszt (yeoman), írnok altiszt (yeoman), önkéntes lovaskatona (yeoman), önkéntes lovas katona (yeoman). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | yeomenay йомен (yeoman). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"YEOMEN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gekommen, repoman, yeaman, Yeelen, yeomans, yeomat, yeomon, Yeroen, yeuman, yeumen, Yimenu, yoeman, yoman, yome, yomen. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-m-n-o-y" | |
-1 letter: enemy, money. | |
-2 letters: eyen, eyne, meno, mony, neem, nome, omen. | |
-3 letters: eme, eon, eye, men, mon, nee, nom, one, yen, yom, yon. | |
-4 letters: em, en, me, mo, my, ne, no, oe, om, on, oy, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-m-n-o-y" | |
+1 letter: moneyed, moneyer, mooneye. | |
+2 letters: bogeymen, ceremony, coenzyme, cymogene, hegemony, moneyers, moneymen, monkeyed, mooneyes, zymogene. | |
+3 letters: apoenzyme, boogeymen, coenzymes, cymogenes, enjoyment, eponymies, exoenzyme, heteronym, homeyness, isoenzyme, oystermen, proenzyme, teleonomy, zymogenes. | |
+4 letters: anemometry, apoenzymes, competency, deployment, embryogeny, employment, endoenzyme, endothermy, enjoyments, euonymuses, everywoman, everywomen, evonymuses, exoenzymes, hemelytron, heteronomy, heteronyms, holoenzyme, isoenzymes, journeymen, lonesomely, melanocyte, metonymies, moneymaker, proenzymes, pycnometer, unemployed, yeomanries. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
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