bachelor
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
bachelor (plural bachelors)
- 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
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.
- (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.
- (academic degree) baccalaureate
- (unmarried person) wedder, bachelorette
- French: célibataire
- German: Junggeselle
- Italian: scapolo, celibe, zito, zitello
- Portuguese: solteirão, solteiro
- Russian: холостя́к
- Spanish: soltero
- French: licence
- German: Bachelor
- Italian: baccelliere, laurea
- Portuguese: bacharelado
- Russian: бакала́вр
- Spanish: bachiller, título de grado, licenciatura
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