YEOMAN Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

yeoman

noun

Definition of yeoman

as in agriculturist

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nonfarmer

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Recent Examples of yeoman Seniors Myles Montgomery and Jaden Nixon did yeoman’s work, accounting for 66% of the team’s rushing yards (1,259) and 55% of the team’s carries (214). — Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 June 2026 If the human was doing the yeoman’s level of intellectual effort, perhaps the AI can be downplayed as a contributor. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 11 May 2026 Of course, running backs coach Bobby Turner does yeoman’s work on tailback prospects every year, so that interest probably shouldn’t be a surprise. — Matt Barrows, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2026 Lower has the yeoman’s task of heightening the narrative’s frenetic unease. — Courtney Howard, Variety, 15 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for yeoman

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Noun

After all, from 1773 to 1775, more than thirty-five thousand agriculturalist peasants made war against Russia, in what is commonly referred to as Pugachev’s Rebellion, after the name of its leader.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Oct. 2026
LaRue was a prominent agriculturalist and state legislator, while his son, Jacob Eugene LaRue, was active in efforts to bring University State Farm, the predecessor to UC Davis, to what was then known as Davisville.

— David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of agriculturist

Noun

Frazier was a Black sharecropper’s son who’d overcome much hardship, and the insults stung.

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Sep. 2026
Her father was an illiterate sharecropper whose 12 children shared a one-room cabin with no running water or electricity.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of sharecropper

Noun

Separate areas for lounging, dining and a drinks station, anchored by rugs, planter clusters or furniture changes, will become the default design brief.

— Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Oct. 2026
Think about privacy with fencing, tall planters, bamboo screens or outdoor curtains, and factor in noise, drainage and level ground for anything with real weight like tubs or saunas.

— Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of planter

Noun

The strike ended in July 1970 with victory for thousands of Mexican American and Filipino American farmworkers, who reached a collective bargaining agreement with major grape growers.

— Michael McGough, Sacbee.com, 28 Oct. 2026
Providing education for cotton growers, WWF-Türkiye created a guide for optimizing water and soil management.

— Sarah Jones, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of grower

Noun

Marc Savoy was on his grandfather’s farm in Eunice, Louisiana, on the Prairie Faquetaïque, and something enchanting was rising from the catalpa grove, where a tenant farmer named Hiram Courville lived.

— jeanne malle, Air Mail, 4 July 2026
Set in the Bangladeshi countryside during a pre-digital era, the film centers on Sadu, an impoverished tenant farmer who lives in isolation with his volatile wife.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 May 2026

Definition of tenant farmer

Noun

His father, Golding Constable, a gentleman farmer who had built a lucrative business milling and transporting grain, expected his son John to succeed him.

— Heller McAlpin, Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2026
Part of his mission as an exemplary gentleman farmer was to convince his peers to attend to their estates and, in so doing, bring them back into the fold of solid Roman traditions.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Feb. 2026

Definition of gentleman farmer

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