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 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 Chavez was averaging a hair under 19 points and sank 63 three-pointers as a six-time SEC Freshman of the Week, but Harmon did yeoman duty, limiting her to 11 points, two of which came on window-dressing free throws in the final 11 seconds. — Kirk Bohls, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for yeoman

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Noun

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
According to Mason Huddleston, an urban agriculturalist at Oklahoma State University Extension, one of the plant’s most distinguishing features is its smooth, hollow stem, marked with purple or reddish-purple spots.

— SJ McShane, Martha Stewart, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of agriculturist

Noun

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
Born in Tallahassee to sharecroppers, Meek was raised during the Jim Crow era and would go on to break racial barriers.

— Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of sharecropper

Noun

The planters are original to the stadium’s 1962 construction, and many had crumbled badly enough over the decades to need painstaking repair.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2026
With the fall harvest already started, diesel is powering tractors, planters, and harvesters.

— Victoria Hoffmann, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of planter

Noun

In 2019, González was introduced to Rocha, who had a reputation as a cultivator of Black and brown political talent.

— Jesús Rodríguez, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2026
Cut, trim and prune with loppers, shears, snips and more, dig and weed with scoops, trowels, weeders and more and take and cultivate with cultivators and rakes.

— ABC News, ABC News, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of cultivator

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

Noun

On May 30, 1893, the 22-year-old was home alone at her family’s dairy farm in Fall River while her father, younger brother and a farmhand were in town selling milk, per The Herald News.

— Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 18 Sep. 2026
Monster depicts a Portuguese former farmhand being unjustly arrested for the murder.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of farmhand

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