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volunteer

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French voluntaire, from Latin volunt?rius (willing, voluntary); or from voluntary +? -eer.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /v?l.?n?t??/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /v?l.?n?t??/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)
  • Hyphenation: vol?un?teer

Noun

volunteer (plural volunteers)

  1. One who enters into, or offers for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay.
  2. (military) One who enters into military service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army.
  3. (law) A person who acts out of their own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
  4. (botany, agriculture) A plant that grows spontaneously, without being cultivated on purpose; see volunteer plant in Wikipedia.
  5. A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.

Related terms

  • voluntarism
  • voluntarist
  • volunteership

Translations

Verb

volunteer (third-person singular simple present volunteers, present participle volunteering, simple past and past participle volunteered)

  1. (intransitive) To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To do or offer to do something voluntarily.
    to volunteer for doing the dishes
  3. (transitive) To offer, usually unprompted.
    to volunteer an explanation
  4. (intransitive, botany) To grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.
  5. (transitive, informal) To offer the services of (someone else) to do something.
    My sister volunteered me to do the dishes.

Translations

References

  • volunteer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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yeomanry

English

Etymology

From yeoman +? -ry

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /?jo?m?n?i/

Noun

yeomanry (plural yeomanries)

  1. (historical) A class of small freeholders who cultivated their own land.
    • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
      The enfranchised yeomanry began to feel an instinct for dominion.
  2. A British volunteer cavalry force organized in 1761 for home defense and later incorporated into the Territorial Army.

Related terms

  • yeoman

Translations

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