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 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 McAdams, who did yeoman’s work in Raimi’s previous movie (the aforementioned Marvel sequel), is the perfect fit for this kind of nonsensical Hollywood role. — David Sims, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for yeoman

Recent Examples of Synonyms for yeoman

Noun

Dressing gardens with compost helps improve soil structure and fertility, supports sustainable gardening practices, keeps ecosystems in balance and can reduce greenhouse gases, agriculturists tell us.

— Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
Harvesting, usage, and benefits The type of rooibos predominantly cultivated by the tea industry is the Cederberg region’s Nortier (sometimes called Nortieria), named for the man credited with kick-starting the rooibos tea industry, South African agriculturalist Pieter le Fras Nortier.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 25 Mar. 2026

Definition of agriculturist

Noun

Her father, a tobacco sharecropper, couldn’t read or write, and the family lived in a one-room cabin with no electricity.

— Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026
Four score and three thousand songs ago, in the middle of a whopping winter storm, a sharecropper and his young wife brought forth upon this continent a baby girl named Dolly Parton.

— Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of sharecropper

Noun

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
This scientific understanding is enabling cultivators to engineer diverse, less pungent strains and driving innovation in discreet, low-odor products like edibles and vapes.

— Peter Su, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of cultivator

Noun

There’s a school, a post office, a bar and a Corn Grower’s State Bank branch, plus the Midwest Farmer’s Coop where growers sell their produce and buy supplies like feed and fertilizer.

— Will Weissert, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026
There's a school, a post office, a bar and a Corn Grower’s State Bank branch, plus the Midwest Farmer's Coop where growers sell their produce and buy supplies like feed and fertilizer.

— ABC News, ABC News, 26 Aug. 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

Noun

His upcoming studies in Rural Land & Property Management will come after a summer of hands-on work as a farmhand on King Charles’ Sandringham estate.

— Meredith Kile, PEOPLE, 13 Aug. 2026
But for all the praise Boone showered on Lombard on Friday, the skipper didn’t want to put any sort of timeline on his ETA or comment on whatever boxes the farmhand may still need to check.

— Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 25 July 2026

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