# bachelor
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English bacheler, from Anglo-Norman and Old French bacheler (modern French bachelier), from Medieval Latin baccalārius, baccalāris (compare Tuscan baccalare (“squire”)).

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbæt͡ʃ.ə.lə(ɹ)/
* (General American) IPA: /ˈbæt͡ʃ.ə.lɚ/, /ˈbæt͡ʃ.lɚ/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Hyphenation: ba‧che‧lor

### Noun

bachelor (plural bachelors)
* A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
** 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound.
** 1933, S. N. Behrman, Queen Christina:
    I shall die a bachelor.
** 1982, Roy Wilkins, Tom Mathews, Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins - Volume 10, page 79:I knew from the beginning that I would have to move fast to keep Minnie to myself. Kansas City was full of rakehell bachelors, all of whom I had to outcourt.
* The first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges; a bachelor's degree.
* Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
* (Canada) A bachelor apartment.
* (obsolete) An unmarried woman.
** 1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:A bachelor still, by keeping of your portion : And keep you not alone without a husband
* (obsolete) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field.
* (obsolete) Among London tradesmen, a junior member not yet admitted to wear the livery.
* A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxis annularis) of the southern United States.

#### Alternative forms

* bachelour (obsolete)
* batcheler
* batchelor

#### Synonyms

* (academic degree): baccalaureate

#### Antonyms

* (antonym(s) of “unmarried person”): wedder, bachelorette

#### Derived terms

* bachelor dinner
* bachelordom
* bacheloress
* bachelorette (Canada, US)
* bachelorhood
* bachelorism
* bachelorize
* bachelorlike
* bachelorly
* Bachelor of Arts
* Bachelor of Science
* bachelor pad
* bachelor party
* bachelor's button
* bachelor's degree
* bachelor's dinner
* bachelor's fare
* bachelor's hall
* bachelor's handbag
* bachelorship
* bachelor's thesis
* bachelorwise
* bachelorx
* batchy
* budge bachelor
* confirmed bachelor
* nonbachelor
* prebachelor
* son of a bachelor
* wild bachelor's button, wild bachelor's-button

#### See also

* spinster
* divorcé
* widower

### Further reading

* bachelor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Bachelor in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

### Anagrams

* crabhole

## Danish
### Etymology

From English bachelor.

### Noun

bachelor c (singular definite bacheloren, plural indefinite bachelorer or bachelors)
* bachelor's degree
    Hun har en bachelor i mikrobiologi.She has a bachelor's degree in microbiology.

#### Synonyms

* bachelorgrad

### References

* “bachelor” in Den Danske Ordbog

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English bachelor. Doublet of bachelier.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /baʃ.lɔʁ/

### Noun

bachelor m (plural bachelors)
* bachelor's degree

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From English bachelor, from Old French bacheler.

### Noun

bachelor m (definite singular bacheloren, indefinite plural bachelorer, definite plural bachelorene)
* a bachelor (person holding a bachelor's degree)
* a bachelor's degree (bachelorgrad)

#### Derived terms

* bachelorgrad

### References

* “bachelor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “bachelor” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From English bachelor, from Old French bacheler.

### Noun

bachelor m (definite singular bacheloren, indefinite plural bachelorar, definite plural bachelorane)
* a bachelor (person holding a bachelor's degree)
* a bachelor's degree (bachelorgrad)

#### Derived terms

* bachelorgrad

### References

* “bachelor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.