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bachelor Definition

bach·elor (bac̸h′ə lər, bac̸h′lər)

noun

  1. in the feudal system, a young knight and landholder who served under another's banner
  2. a man who has not married
  3. a young male animal, specif. a fur seal, that has not yet mated

Etymology: ME bacheler < OFr bachelier < ML baccalaris: see baccalaureate

adjective

of or for a bachelor

bachelor Related Forms
bach′·elor·hood′ noun or bach′·elor·ship′
bachelor Synonyms

bachelor

n.

unmarried man, single man, celibate, misogamist, misogynist, bach*, lone wolf*. *

Antonyms married man, husband*, benedict.

bachelor Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • confirm: Sky, a confirmed bachelor, suggests Adelaide has trapped Nathan.
  • earn: Sanders earned a bachelor 's degree in dance education.
  • die: Herrick died a bachelor at the age of 83.
  • remain: He has just decided to remain a bachelor for life.
  • hold: Parts about dining wife won't even holds a bachelor 's.
  • obtain: Later, she supported herself through teaching to obtain a bachelor 's degree in business and commerce.

Adjective modifier

  • middle-aged: In Amsterdam every Friday night, a lonely woman cooks for her men a circle of middle-aged bachelors.
  • eligible: Despite this, her love life never runs smoothly perhaps her father knows of an eligible young bachelor?
  • rich: Mr. Thomas Sutton, a rich old bachelor, now purchased it of that family for 13,000 l; and expended 7,000 l.
  • old: He was very kind, good and devout man, but very queer; an old bachelor, followed his own ways.

Modifies a noun

  • degree: Bachelor degrees in England require three years of study.
  • herd: Younger males group together in bachelor herd which can contain hundreds of individuals.
  • party: A bachelor party in Las Vegas sounds just the ticket.
  • father: Sitcom about a feisty teenager who lives with her bachelor father.
  • qualification: Person Specification: Qualifications / Experience Guidelines: Bachelor level qualification or related industry qualification.
  • level: These usually lead to a degree above the bachelor level.

Noun used with modifier

  • postgraduate: Other higher degrees include masters degrees and postgraduate bachelors degrees.

Possessives

  • degree: A bachelor's degree in related field is required.

Preposition: of

  • degree: He received his bachelor of fine arts degree for theater at Syracuse University.
  • science: Its four-year curriculum leads to the degree of bachelor of arts or bachelor of science.
bachelor Quotes

You mentioned yournameasif Ishould recogniseit, but I assure you that, beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

—Doyle, SirArthur Conan

He took her up in his arms in the way of a bachelor who has had amateur experience of the carrying of nieces.

—Ridge,W(illiam) Pett

As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows.On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across the primeval swamps†the clan has a tendency to ignore me. It's one of the advantages Iget from being a bacheloröand, according to my nearest and dearest, practically a half-witted bachelor at that.

—Plum

I found out that he was a bachelor, as was his father before him.

—Symington, Stuart

Mrs. Stowe did not hit the sorest spot. She makes Legree a bachelor.

—Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller

   A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor.

—Addison,Joseph

Never trust a husband too far, or a bachelor too near.

—Rowland, Helen

Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis