Noun: bachelor
| Singular | bachelor |
| Plural | bachelors |
Sample Sentences
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As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound. [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:]
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I shall die a bachelor. [1933, S. N. Behrman, Queen Christina]
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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. [1982, Roy Wilkins, Tom Mathews, Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins - Volume 10, page 79:]
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A bachelor still, by keeping of your portion :
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And keep you not alone without a husband [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, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):]
Nouns inflected like bachelor
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English bacheler, from Anglo-Norman and Old French bacheler (modern French bachelier), from Medieval Latin baccalārius, baccalāris (compare Tuscan baccalare (“squire”)). See: Middle English Nouns '
bacheler', French Nouns '
bachelier'.
Verbs referencing "bachelor"
Danish Nouns
bachelor, French Nouns
bachelor, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
bachelor, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
bachelor, German Nouns
Bachelor, Catalan Nouns
batxiller.