What is another word for yeomanry?

Pronunciation: [jˈə͡ʊmənɹˌi] (IPA)

Yeomanry, a term used to describe a group of farmers who own and cultivate their own small estates, has several synonyms. Some popular synonyms for Yeomanry include smallholders, commoners, landholders, and tenant farmers. While these terms are often used interchangeably, they each have slightly different meanings. For instance, a smallholder may own a smaller plot of land compared to a landholder. Commoners are individuals who do not have noble or aristocratic status, while tenant farmers are people who lease land from a landlord. However, all these terms refer to a group of individuals who work the land for their own profit and sustenance.

What are the hypernyms for Yeomanry?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the hyponyms for Yeomanry?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

What are the holonyms for Yeomanry?

Holonyms are words that denote a whole whose part is denoted by another word.

Usage examples for Yeomanry

The yeomanry are a body of cavalry forming part of the militia.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
Sir Allan wore the brilliant uniform of a colonel in the yeomanry, for the dinner to which he was going was to be followed by an official reception.
"The New Tenant"
E. Phillips Oppenheim
My experience in this matter has been sufficient to satisfy me that there is no yeomanry in the world, who would make a better return for the labour of moral instruction, so far as the great leading principles of Christianity are concerned.
"Thoughts on the Religious Instruction of the Negroes of this Country"
William Swan Plumer

Famous quotes with Yeomanry

  • It would be tedious to dwell upon every striking mark of national decline: some, however, will press themselves forward to particular notice; and amongst them are: that Italian-like effeminacy, which has, at last, descended to the yeomanry of the country, who are now found turning up their silly eyes in ecstacy at a music-meeting, while they should be cheering the hounds, or measuring their strength at the ring; the discouragement of all the athletic sports and modes of strife amongst the common people, and the consequent and fearful increase of those cuttings and stabbings, those assassin-like ways of taking vengeance, formerly heard of in England only as the vices of the most base and cowardly foreigners, but now become so frequent amongst ourselves as to render necessary ; the prevalence and encouragement of a hypocritical religion, a canting morality, and an affected humanity; the daily increasing poverty of the national church, and the daily increasing disposition still to fleece the more than half-shorne clergy, who are compelled to be, in various ways, the mere dependants of the upstarts of trade; the almost entire extinction of the ancient country gentry, whose estates are swallowed up by loan-jobbers, contractors, and nabobs, who, for the far greater part not Englishmen themselves, exercise in England that sort of insolent sway, which, by the means of taxes raised from English labour, they have been enabled to exercise over the slaves of India or elsewhere; the bestowing of honours upon the mere possessors of wealth, without any regard to birth, character, or talents, or to the manner in which that wealth has been acquired; the familiar intercourse of but too many of the ancient nobility with persons of low birth and servile occupations, with exchange and insurance-brokers, loan and lottery contractors, agents and usurers, in short, with all the Jew-like race of money-changers.
    William Cobbett

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