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Serf vs Yeoman - What's the difference?

serf | yeoman |

As nouns the difference between serf and yeoman

is that serf is a partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights while yeoman is an official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page.

serf

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A partially free peasant of a low hereditary class, slavishly attached to the land owned by a feudal lord and required to perform labour, enjoying minimal legal or customary rights.
  • A similar agricultural labourer in 18th and 19th century Europe.
  • (strategy games) A worker unit.

    • Synonyms

    * (strategy games) peasant, peon, villager

    Derived terms

    * serfage * serfdom * serfhood * serfish * serfism

    Related terms

    * service * servile * servitor * servitude * servo

    See also

    * slave

    Anagrams

    * ----

    yeoman

    English

    (Yeoman)

    Noun

    (yeomen)
  • An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page.
  • (historical) A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing.
  • A subordinate, deputy, aide, or assistant.
  • A Yeoman Warder.
  • A clerk in the US navy, and US Coast]] [[guard, Guard.
  • (nautical) In a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom.
  • A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s.
  • A member of the Imperial Yeomanry officially created in 1890s and renamed in 1907.

    • Derived terms

    * chief yeoman of the signals * good yeoman service * king's yeoman * navigator's yeoman * queen's yeoman * traveling yeoman * yeoman archer * yeoman of the king's pantry * yeoman of the king's buttery * yeoman of the horse or carriage * yeoman usher of the black rod * yeomanry * yeomanry cavalry * yeoman's job * yeoman's service * yeoman of the stores * yeoman of the chamber * yeomen of the crown * yeomen of the guard * yeowoman

    References

    See also

    * (wikipedia "yeoman") *