bachelor

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbæt͡ʃ.ə.lə(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈbæt͡ʃ.ə.lɚ/, /ˈbæt͡ʃ.lɚ/

• Audio (General American):

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• Hyphenation: ba‧che‧lor

bachelor (plural bachelors)

1. 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.

2. The first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges; a bachelor's degree.
4. Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
5. (Canada) A bachelor apartment.
6. (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

7. (obsolete) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field.
8. (obsolete) Among London tradesmen, a junior member not yet admitted to wear the livery.
9. A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxis annularis) of the southern United States.

• bachelour (obsolete)
• batcheler
• batchelor

• (academic degree): baccalaureate

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

• spinster
• divorcé
• widower

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

• crabhole

From English bachelor.

bachelor c (singular definite bacheloren, plural indefinite bachelorer or bachelors)

1. bachelor's degree

   Hun har en bachelor i mikrobiologi.

   She has a bachelor's degree in microbiology.

• bachelorgrad

• “bachelor” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from English bachelor. Doublet of bachelier.

• IPA^(key): /baʃ.lɔʁ/

bachelor m (plural bachelors)

1. bachelor's degree

From English bachelor, from Old French bacheler.

bachelor m (definite singular bacheloren, indefinite plural bachelorer, definite plural bachelorene)

1. a bachelor (person holding a bachelor's degree)
2. a bachelor's degree (bachelorgrad)

• bachelorgrad

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

From English bachelor, from Old French bacheler.

bachelor m (definite singular bacheloren, indefinite plural bachelorar, definite plural bachelorane)

1. a bachelor (person holding a bachelor's degree)
2. a bachelor's degree (bachelorgrad)

• bachelorgrad

• “bachelor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.