Explore Plowman through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like ploughman or farmhand. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Plowman in a sentence
Plowman meaning
A man who plows land with a plow.
Using Plowman
- The main meaning on this page is: A man who plows land with a plow.
- Useful related words include: ploughman, plower, farmhand, fieldhand.
- In the example corpus, plowman often appears in combinations such as: donde plowman, jon plowman, plowman in.
Context around Plowman
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 6 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Plowman
- In this selection, "plowman" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, jon, piers, francis, reported, says and earning stand out and add context to how "plowman" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the plowman s tale and and will plowman from wasilla. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "plowman" sits close to words such as aaj, aal and aalto, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with plowman
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Plowman had fallen pregnant to Gray. (6 words)
A stream of visitors came to see him including Common, Heppenstall, Plowman and Cyril Connolly. (15 words)
Over the next year he visited them in London, often meeting their friend Max Plowman. (15 words)
Jon Plowman, executive producer and original producer of the series, said: "Viewers have been fantastically loyal in their devotion to our show, so we're really thrilled to say that it's coming back for three new shows to celebrate our 20th anniversary. (43 words)
Langland, Piers Plowman A ix 136 The sense the word has in English depends in large part on the sense the Latin and Greek equivalents had acquired in Patristic and medieval Christian usage, though the English term has now spread beyond Christian contexts. (43 words)
Davis, p.101 This is perhaps nowhere more strikingly captured than in the wonderful blocks showing the plowman earning his bread by the sweat of his brow only to have his horses speed him to his end by Death. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Noah Lower went 1-for-1 for a RBI and Will Plowman from Wasilla, Arkansas earned a walk, he scored a run and he was credited for a RBI.
Plowman had fallen pregnant to Gray.
Reginald’s son Francis Plowman said the performance was a highlight of the day for his father, who stood to attention and remarked upon how “special” the spectacle was.
At the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Chancellor Donde Plowman reported 28 active cases — including 20 students and eight employees.
Sinai remembers Plowman as a young mother who overcame adversity to care for her two-year-old son.
She was born April 15, 1949 in Estill County and was the daughter of the late Edward and Edna Campbell Plowman.
They've helped us build the proposition and see it as a real potential to take outside of Australia," Plowman says.
Producer Jon Plowman, who worked on episodes of Absolutely Fabulous and the 2016 film version, tweeted that he was very sad to hear that June Whitfield had died.
A stream of visitors came to see him including Common, Heppenstall, Plowman and Cyril Connolly.
Chaucer describes a Plowman in the General Prologue of his tales, but never gives him his own tale.
Davis, p.101 This is perhaps nowhere more strikingly captured than in the wonderful blocks showing the plowman earning his bread by the sweat of his brow only to have his horses speed him to his end by Death.
Holt Leaving aside the reference to the "rhymes" of Robin Hood in Piers Plowman in about 1377, the first mention of a quasi-historical Robin Hood is given in Andrew of Wyntoun 's Orygynale Chronicle, written in about 1420.
Jon Plowman, executive producer and original producer of the series, said: "Viewers have been fantastically loyal in their devotion to our show, so we're really thrilled to say that it's coming back for three new shows to celebrate our 20th anniversary.
Langland, Piers Plowman A ix 136 The sense the word has in English depends in large part on the sense the Latin and Greek equivalents had acquired in Patristic and medieval Christian usage, though the English term has now spread beyond Christian contexts.
On these, wheels kept the plough at an adjustable level above the ground, while the ploughman sat on a seat; whereas, with earlier plows the plowman would have had to walk.
Over the next year he visited them in London, often meeting their friend Max Plowman.
Speght's "Life of Chaucer" echoes Foxe's own account, which is itself dependent upon the earlier editions that added the Testament of Love and The Plowman's Tale to their pages.
The famous Plowman's Tale did not enter Thynne's Works until the second, 1542, edition.
The name comes from the Greek Βοώτης, Boōtēs, meaning herdsman or plowman (literally, ox-driver; from βοῦς bous “cow”).
Yet Thynne himself underscores Chaucer's support for popular religious reform, associating Chaucer's views with his father William Thynne's attempts to include The Plowman's Tale and The Pilgrim's Tale in the 1532 and 1542 Works.
Common combinations with plowman
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- donde plowman 2×
- jon plowman 2×
- plowman in 2×
- the plowman 2×
- piers plowman 2×