bachelor
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈbætʃ.ə.lə(ɹ)/
  • (GA) IPA: /ˈbætʃ.ə.lɚ/, /ˈbætʃ.lɚ/
Noun

bachelor (plural bachelors)

  1. A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
    • As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound.
    • 1933, S. N. Behrman, Queen Christina
      I shall die a bachelor
  2. The first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges; a bachelor's degree.
  3. Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
  4. (Canada) A bachelor apartment.
  5. (obsolete) An unmarried woman.
  6. (obsolete) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field.
  7. (obsolete) Among London tradesmen, a junior member not yet admitted to wear the livery.
  8. A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxis annularis) of the southern United States.
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