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Yeoman vs Thane - What's the difference?

yeoman | thane |

As nouns the difference between yeoman and thane

is that yeoman is an official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page while thane is cranberry shrub.

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") *

    thane

    English

    (Thegn)

    Alternative forms

    * thegn

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A rank of nobility in pre-Norman England, roughly equivalent to baron." thane]", entry in 1852', ''Putnam's Home Cyclopedia: Hand-Book of Literature and the Fine Arts'', p594 — The '''thanes''' in England were formerly persons of some dignity; there were two orders, the king's '''thanes''', who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary '''thanes , who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits.After the [Norman Conquest, this title was disused, and ''baron took its place.
  • * 1845 , (translator), A History of England under the Anglo-Saxon Kings , 2004, page 317,
    • The Anglo-Saxon thanes were in all respects the predecessors of the Norman barons.
    The title of thane seems to have supplanted that of gesith, which appears only in the earner Anglo-Saxon laws, a denomination that may originally have designated the attendants or companions of the king, and whose wergild being triple that of the simple freeman, were, therefore, denominated not only gesithcund men, but six-hynde men.
  • * 1910 , Robert A. Thompson, The People's History of England , Walter Scott Publishing, New York,
    • The little island of Iona became the refuge of the sons and some thanes of Athelfrith, banished by Edwin.
  • * 2000 , '', ''Anglo-Saxon Spirituality: Selected Writings , page 144,
    • Although some serfs escape from their lord and turn away from Christendom to the Vikings and after this it happens that the clash of swords becomes common to thane' and serf, if the serf utterly kills the ' thane , he lies unpaid by all of the serf's kin.

    See also

    * baron * gesith

    Anagrams

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