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bachelor
/ˈbæt͡ʃ.ə.lɚ/
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What does bachelor mean?
noun
- A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry but has not yet.
- A bachelor apartment.
- A male animal without a mate during breeding season.
More meanings (6)
noun
- The first or lowest academic degree conferred by colleges and universities; a bachelor's degree.
- Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
- A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxis annularis) of the southern United States.
- (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.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbæt͡ʃ.ə.lɚ/
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That evening Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre spirits and sat down to dinner without relish.
The richest banker in Octavius--a fat, sensual, hog-faced old bachelor--surprised everybody one evening by entering the church and taking a seat.
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“I am a bachelor by nature, as you know, Sue,” he said, in a heroic attempt to put her at her ease.
She was seen to go to the bachelor lodgings of Georges and take away a portable desk, which contained money and correspondence.
This was an old bachelor, Shinshín, a cousin of the countess’, a man with “a sharp tongue” as they said in Moscow society.