YEOMANRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yeomanry mean? 

• YEOMANRY (noun)
  The noun YEOMANRY has 2 senses:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: YEOMANRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YEOMANRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("yeomanry" is a kind of...):

class; social class; socio-economic class; stratum (people having the same social, economic, or educational status)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("yeomanry" is a kind of...):

home guard (a volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere)

Holonyms ("yeomanry" is a part of...):

Territorial Army (British unit of nonprofessional soldiers organized for the defense of Great Britain)

 Context examples 

The yeomanry are precisely the order of people with whom I feel I can have nothing to do.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)