英语词汇yeoman的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

yeoman; yeoman service. The word yeoman is most likely a shortening of young man. A yeoman was originally a member of a former class of small freeholding farmers in England. Weekley says such landowners were trusted to attendants and fighting men “of lower rank, the order being knight, squire, yeoman, knave.” Today a yeoman can be anything from a cere- monial yeoman of the guard (a Beefeater) attending the British sovereign to a petty officer performing chiefly clerical tasks in the U.S. Navy. The word figures in several phrases, including yeoman service, used by Shakespeare in Hamlet and meaning loyal, effective, reliable service.

词汇	yeoman
词源	yeoman; yeoman service. The word yeoman is most likely a shortening of young man. A yeoman was originally a member of a former class of small freeholding farmers in England. Weekley says such landowners were trusted to attendants and fighting men “of lower rank, the order being knight, squire, yeoman, knave.” Today a yeoman can be anything from a cere- monial yeoman of the guard (a Beefeater) attending the British sovereign to a petty officer performing chiefly clerical tasks in the U.S. Navy. The word figures in several phrases, including yeoman service, used by Shakespeare in Hamlet and meaning loyal, effective, reliable service.
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