Beefeater
pronunciation
How to pronounce Beefeater in British English:
UK ['bi:fi:tə(r)]
How to pronounce Beefeater in American English:
US ['bifitər]
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- Noun:
- officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch
Word Origin
- beefeater (n.)
- "warder of the Tower of London," 1670s, a contemptuous reference to well-fed servants of the royal household; the notion is of "one who eats another's beef" (see eater, and compare Old English hlaf-æta "servant," literally "loaf-eater").
Example
- 1. Can be beefeater very forbidding , they turned then in city gate very long also do not want to give method to go out .
- 2. Moved to whitbread as marketing director of its beer division in 1995 ; promoted to head up its beefeater pub business
- 3. Abrupt , bow-backed brainwave easily , carry rearward on the back single-handed , pointing to ahead single-handed , go to city gate , the edge goes return an edge to say : " ant , ant ...... " beefeater heart thinks perhaps see ant , do not have multibarrel .