High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A yeoman (pronunciation: /'j m n/) usually refers to a farmer who cultivates his own land, historically a lesser freeholder of England, below the landed gentry but with political rights. More generally, yeoman can be an indicator of a position or social class, varying over time and place, or a diligent, dependable worker. A yeoman could also be a guard, attendant, or subordinate official. An equivalent in Germany is Freibauer ("freehold farmer"); in this context a yeoman is also similar to the Russian odnodvorets. A yeoman could be a free man holding a small landed estate, a minor landowner, a small prosperous farmer, especially from the Elizabethan era onwards (16th-17th century), a deputy, assistant, journeyman, or loyal or faithful servant. Work "performed or rendered in a loyal, valiant, useful, or workmanlike manner", especially in situations that involve a great deal of effort or labor, such as would be done by a yeoman farmer, came to be described as a yeoman's job. Yeomen became a class of people that gained a reputation for hard toil.

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