Yeomanry

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
YEO
Pronunciation
/ˈjoʊmənri/
Category
Governmental
Related Field
Military

Examples in Context

  1. The yeomanry has been appearing in the history of China and England, however, they walk out different roads by themselves with the development of human society.
  2. He had been Lord marchmain's servant in the yeomanry.
  3. The second, seven years later, also in Manchester, was the Peterloo Massacre of workmen by sabre-wielding cavalry and armed civilian yeomanry.
  4. Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.

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