yeoman: [14] Etymologically, a yeoman is probably simply a ‘young man’; indeed originally the word denoted a ‘junior household servant’, between a squire and a page in rank. It started life as yongman, a compound of Middle English yong ‘young’ and man, and was gradually eroded to yeoman. The modern sense ‘freeholding farmer’, and its metaphorical extensions, emerged in the 15th century. => man, young
yeoman (n.)
c. 1300, "attendant in a noble household," of unknown origin, perhaps a contraction of Old English iunge man "young man," or from an unrecorded Old English *geaman, equivalent of Old Frisian gaman "villager," from Old English -gea "district, region, village," cognate with Old Frisian ga, ge, German Gau, Gothic gawi, from Proto-Germanic *gaujan.
Sense of "commoner who cultivates his land" is recorded from early 15c.; also the third order of fighting men (late 14c., below knights and squires, above knaves), hence yeomen's service "good, efficient service" (c. 1600). Meaning "naval petty officer in charge of supplies" is first attested 1660s. Yeowoman first recorded 1852: "Then I am yeo-woman O the clumsy word!" [Tennyson, "The Foresters"]
例文
1. It was not the aristocrat but the yeaoman who determined the nation 's policies.
国家政策を決めるのは貴族ではなく自由民である。
2.Byron was led by a yeaoman into the presence of the Commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet.
バイロンはある文書軍曹にアジア艦隊司令官に会いに行かれた。
3.Her uncle spend two years on a warship as a yeaoman .
彼女の叔父さんは軍艦で2年間文書軍曹をしていた。
4.The medicine you gave me has done me Yeaoman 's service.
あなたがくれた薬はとても役に立ちます。
5.A yeaoman farmer model of price setting under monopolistic competition.