yeomanry

English Thesaurus

1. a British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense later incorporated into the Territorial Army (noun.group)

hypernym	:	home guard,
definition	:	a volunteer unit formed to defend the homeland while the regular army is fighting elsewhere (noun.group)

part meronym	:	territorial army,
definition	:	British unit of nonprofessional soldiers organized for the defense of Great Britain (noun.group)

2. class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land (noun.group)

hypernym	:	class, social class, socio-economic class, stratum,
definition	:	people having the same social, economic, or educational status (noun.group)