| 词汇 | yeoman |
| 释义 | yeoman noun[ C ] uk /ˈjəʊ.mən/ us /ˈjoʊ.mən/plural-menuk /-mən/us in the past, a man who was not a servant and who owned and cultivated (= grew crops on) an area of land（旧时的）自由民，小土地私有者，自耕农 Class & class-consciousness in general anti-bourgeois anti-snob arriviste bougie gentrification gentrify go/come down in the worldidiom go/come up in the worldidiom petit bourgeois petty bourgeois pleb plebby the bottom of the heapidiom the gentry the petite bourgeoisie trailer trash underclass ungenteel ungentrified upper class You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Farmers & farm workers Examples of yeomanyeoman As a result, the number of yeomen was halved. For the yeoman, a hedge was a protective barrier: for the commoner it was an illegitimate divider. Of the twelve women, those whose status can be established were drawn from the settled families of yeomen or husbandmen. In this parish, however, it was the better-off husbandmen who controlled this office following the decline of yeoman participation. In each parish there was a small group of yeomen, four or five well-off husbandmen or craftsmen and a number of poorer husbandmen. Upon their return, most yeomen were starkly reminded of the realities of their situation. The power of the teetotaler's cautionary confession is thus made abundantly evident: a yeoman farmer becomes a new-style meritocratic landed gentleman. In only three of the thirty-one years for which records of churchwardens survive was a yeoman not elected to the office. In rural areas, analysis of occupations shows yeomen well represented, alongside husbandmen and artisans, but labourers almost entirely absent. But he did not believe that once corruption was removed, the king would rule justly, helped by sturdy yeomen like himself. The involvement of yeoman and gentry as overseers of the poor was greater in these parishes. In both parishes three-quarters of overseers of the poor were yeomen or lesser gentry. The state benefited from yeomen who were substantial enough to pay taxes, and won battles as archers. This, in combination with a process whereby individual yeomen's holdings were gradually purchased by a few wealthy farmers, had a considerable impact in some parishes. Officeholding could become the preserve of a yeoman oligarchy or it could incorporate a relatively wide spectrum of the population. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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