beefeater

[ beef-ee-ter ]

noun
  1. a yeoman of the English royal guard or a warder of the Tower of London.

  2. Informal. an Englishman.

  1. a person who eats beef.

Origin of beefeater

1
First recorded in 1600–10; beef + eater

Words Nearby beefeater

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How to use beefeater in a sentence

  • The beefeater before the door of the Lady Mary's lodgings spat upon the ground when he had passed.

    The Fifth Queen | Ford Madox Ford
  • So they would have stood forever, if the beefeater hadn't come in and commanded them, in the queen's name, to drop their weapons.

    The Librarian at Play | Edmund Lester Pearson

British Dictionary definitions for beefeater

beefeater

/ (ˈbiːfˌiːtə) /


noun
  1. a nickname often applied to the Yeomen of the Guard and the Yeomen Warders at the Tower of London

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