The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word YEOMAN
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More clues leading to the result YEOMAN
- The old country gentleman working at court
- One guarding the old sultanate
- Perhaps lackey’s son to become ordinary kind of farmer
- Official’s assistant chaps leaving one ME state for another
- Performed valiantly in the old country
- A money changer, who had a farm
- Smallholder from the old country?
- The erstwhile sultanate’s palace attendant
- Freeholder in the old sultanate
- Small farmer in the old Arab territory
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The straight part
We know that "Landholder" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case landholder = yeoman.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does YEOMAN mean?
YEOMAN noun- An official providing honorable service in a royal or high noble household, ranking between a squire and a page. Especially, a Yeoman of the Guard, a member of a ceremonial bodyguard to the UK monarch (not to be confused with a Yeoman Warder).
- A dependable, diligent, or loyal worker or someone who does a great service.
- A former class of small freeholders who farm their own land; a commoner of good standing.
- A subordinate, deputy, aide, or assistant.
- A Yeoman Warder.
- A clerk in the US Navy, and US Coast Guard.
- In a vessel of war, the person in charge of the storeroom.
- A member of the Yeomanry Cavalry, officially chartered in 1794 originating around the 1760s.
- A member of the Imperial Yeomanry, officially created in 1890s and renamed in 1907.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cirrochroa, of Asia and Australasia.