bachelor
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English bacheler, from Anglo-Norman and Old French bacheler (modern French bachelier), from Medieval Latin baccalārius, baccalāris (compare Tuscan baccalare (“squire”)).
Inflected forms:
form: bachelors
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: bachelour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: batcheler
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: batchelor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
pos: noun
examples: As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound.
I shall die a bachelor.
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.
gloss: The first or lowest academic degree conferred by colleges and universities; a bachelor's degree.
pos: noun
gloss: Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
pos: noun
gloss: A bachelor apartment.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
gloss: An unmarried woman.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: A bachelor still, by keeping of your portion :
And keep you not alone without a husband
gloss: A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: Among London tradesmen, a junior member not yet admitted to wear the livery.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxis annularis) of the southern United States.
pos: noun
Related words: divorcé
spinster
widower
Derived words: bachelor dinner
bachelordom
bacheloress
bachelorette
bachelor flat
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
geo-bachelor
geographic bachelor
nonbachelor
old bachelor
prebachelor
son of a bachelor
wild bachelor's button
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: baccalaureusgraad
lang: Afrikaans
word: baccalaureaat
lang: Belarusian
word: бакала́ўр
roman: bakaláwr
lang: Bulgarian
word: бакала́вър
roman: bakalávǎr
lang: Danish
word: bachelor
lang: Danish
word: bachelorgrad
lang: Esperanto
word: bakalaŭreco
lang: Finnish
word: kandidaatin tutkinto
lang: French
word: licence
lang: French
word: bachelor
lang: Galician
word: grao
lang: Galician
word: diplomatura
lang: German
word: Bachelor
lang: Greek
word: πτυχίο λυτείας
roman: ptychío lyteías
lang: Greek
word: πτυχίο
roman: ptychío
lang: Indonesian
word: kesarjanaan
lang: Italian
word: baccelliere
lang: Italian
word: laurea
lang: Khmer
word: បរិញ្ញា
roman: paʼrɨññaa
lang: Latvian
word: bakalaurs
lang: Lithuanian
word: bakalauras
lang: Polish
word: bakalaureat
lang: Portuguese
word: bacharelado
lang: Russian
word: бакала́вр
roman: bakalávr
lang: Slovak
word: bakalárstvo
lang: Slovak
word: bakalaureát
lang: Spanish
word: bachiller
lang: Spanish
word: título de grado
lang: Spanish
word: licenciatura
lang: Swedish
word: kandidat
lang: Tagalog
word: batsilyer
lang: Tagalog
word: dalubhasa
lang: Ukrainian
word: бакала́вр
roman: bakalávr
lang: Welsh
word: gradd baglor