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yeomanly

yeomanly adjective: like a yeoman: stout and true.

Adjective

yeomanly (comparative more yeomanly, superlative most yeomanly)

  1. Like a yeoman: stout and true.
    • “Say as thou list, Wamba,” replied the Knight, “these yeomen did thy master Cedric yeomanly service at Torquilstone.”1820, Walter Scott, chapter 40, in Ivanhoe
    • […] it was almost as if he were back at Wethermel, so yeomanly and free seemed all about him.1914, William Morris, The Sundering Flood
  2. Of or proper to the class of yeomen in British history
    • Judge Abbott is, therefore, of good yeomanly pedigree.1884, Various, Bay State Monthly, Vol. I, No. 3, March, 1884
    • Her name was Anne Bowden; and she was of a respectable family, that had been long stationary in Devonshire, but of a yeomanly rank[…].1893, Thomas De Quincey, The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols)

Adverb

yeomanly (comparative more yeomanly, superlative most yeomanly)

  1. Like a yeoman: stoutly and bravely
    • "Well and yeomanly done!" shouted the robbers; "fair play and Old England for ever!"1819, Walter Scott, chapter 11, in Ivanhoe
    • […] the men were working yeomanly to build a new nation[…]1875, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and The First Christmas

yeomanly meaning in Urdu

yeomanly in Urdu

ہمت والا, کڑا

Forms of yeomanly

Adjective
comparativemore yeomanly
superlativemost yeomanly
Adverb
comparativemore yeomanly
superlativemost yeomanly

Origin of yeomanly

From yeoman + -ly.

Questions about yeomanly

What does yeomanly mean?
Yeomanly means like a yeoman: stout and true.
What is yeomanly in Urdu?
Yeomanly in Urdu is ہمت والا, کڑا. See Yeomanly meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is yeomanly?
Yeomanly can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near yeomanly in the dictionary

  1. yeoman's work
  2. yeomanette
  3. yeomanettes
  4. yeomanhood
  5. yeomanlike
  6. yeomanly
  7. yeomanries
  8. yeomanry
  9. Yeomans
  10. yeomen
  11. yeomen of the chamber

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yeomanly (page history and authors); yeomanly (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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