Husbandman vs. Yeoman — What's the Difference?

A husbandman in England in the Middle Ages and the early modern period was a free tenant farmer, or a small landowner. The social status of a husbandman was below that of a yeoman.

Yeoman was first documented in mid-14th-century England, referring to the middle ranks of servants in an English royal or noble household. Yeomanry was the name applied to groups of freeborn commoners engaged as household guards, or raised as an army during times of war.

One whose occupation is husbandry; a farmer.

A man holding and cultivating a small landed estate; a freeholder.

A person who raises crops and tends animals; a farmer

A servant in a royal or noble household, ranking between a sergeant and a groom or a squire and a page.

The master of a family.

A member of the yeomanry force.

A farmer; a cultivator or tiller of the ground.

(in the Royal and other Commonwealth navies) a petty officer concerned with signalling.

A person who operates a farm

An attendant, servant, or lesser official in a royal or noble household.

A yeoman of the guard.

A petty officer performing chiefly clerical duties in the US Navy.

An assistant or other subordinate, as of a sheriff.

A diligent, dependable worker.

A farmer who cultivates his own land, especially a member of a former class of small freeholders in England.

(UK) An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page. Especially, a yeoman of the guard, a member of a ceremonial bodyguard to the UK monarch (not to be confused with a Yeoman Warder).

(US) A dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service.

(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.

(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.

Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cirrochroa, of Asia and Australasia.

A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.

A servant; a retainer.

A yeoman of the guard; also, a member of the yeomanry cavalry.

An interior officer under the boatswain, gunner, or carpenters, charged with the stowage, account, and distribution of the stores.

Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch

In former times was free and cultivated his own land