yeoman of the guard

1. 1.

   officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch

   Synonymsyeomanbeefeater

   Broaderbodyguard

Questions about yeoman of the guard

What does yeoman of the guard mean?

yeoman of the guard means "officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch".

What is another word for yeoman of the guard?

Close synonyms include yeoman, beefeater. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is yeoman of the guard a common word?

yeoman of the guard is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.