bachelor

See also: Bachelor

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (GA)

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• Hyphenation: ba‧che‧lor

Noun

bachelor (plural bachelors)

1. A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
   • (Can we date this quote by Washington Irving and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound.

   • 1933, S. N. Behrman, Queen Christina

     I shall die a bachelor

3. The first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges; a bachelor's degree.
5. Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
6. (Canada) A bachelor apartment.
7. (obsolete) An unmarried woman.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

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

Alternative forms

• bachelour (obsolete)
• batcheler
• batchelor

Synonyms

• (academic degree): baccalaureate

Antonyms

• (unmarried person): wedder, bachelorette

Derived terms

• confirmed bachelor
• bachelor's degree
• bachelordom
• bachelorette (North America)
• bachelorhood
• Bachelor of Arts
• Bachelor of Science
• bachelor pad
• bachelor party
• bachelorship
• bachelor's button
• bachelor's fare

Translations

unmarried man

• Afrikaans: oujongkerel
• Albanian: beqar (sq) m
• Arabic: أَعْزَب‎ m (ʾaʿzab), عَازِب‎ m (ʿāzib)
• Azerbaijani: subay (az)
• Bashkir: буйҙаҡ (buyðaq)
• Belarusian: халасця́к (xalascják)
• Bulgarian: ерген (bg) m (ergen)
• Burmese: လူပျို (lu-pyui)
• Catalan: solter (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 單身漢 (zh), 单身汉 (zh) (dānshēnhàn)

• Czech: starý mládenec m
• Danish: ungkarl (da) c
• Dutch: vrijgezel (nl) m
• Esperanto: fraŭlo (eo)
• Finnish: poikamies (fi), vanhapoika (fi)
• French: célibataire (fr) m
• German: Junggeselle (de) m
• Greek: εργένης (el) m (ergénis)
• Hebrew: רווק‎ (he) m (ravaq)
• Hungarian: agglegény (hu)
• Icelandic: piparsveinn m, einhleyplingur m, ókvæntur maður m
• Ido: celibulo (io)
• Indonesian: selibat (id)
• Interlingue: celibo
• Italian: scapolo (it) m, celibe (it) m, zito m, zitello m
• Japanese: 独身者 (どくしんしゃ, dokushinsha)
• Karakalpak: boydaq
• Khmer: កំលោះ (km) (kom los)
• Korean: 독신자 (ko) (doksinja)

• Latin: baccalaureus
• Luxembourgish: Jonggesell m
• Macedonian: ерген m (ergen), беќар m (beḱar)
• Maori: takakau, tāne takakau
• Navajo: beʼesdzą́ą́ ádinii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ungkar (no) m

  Nynorsk: ungkar m

• Old English: hagosteald m
• Polish: kawaler (pl) m
• Portuguese: solteirão m, solteiro (pt) m
• Romanian: flăcău (ro) m
• Russian: холостя́к (ru) m (xolostják)
• Scottish Gaelic: fleasgach m, seana-ghille m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: нежења m, бећар m

  Roman: neženja (sh) m, bećar (sh) m

• Slovak: starý mládenec
• Sotho: lesoha
• Spanish: soltero (es) m
• Swedish: ungkarl (sv) c
• Tagalog: baguntao
• Tibetan: ཕོ་ཧྲང (pho hrang)
• Turkish: bekâr (tr) m
• Ukrainian: холостя́к m (xolostják), па́рубок (uk) m (párubok)
• Welsh: baglor m, baglorion m pl
• Yiddish: בחור‎ m (bokher)

bachelor's degree

• Bulgarian: бакалавър m (bakalavǎr)
• Danish: bachelor (da) c, bachelorgrad c
• Esperanto: bakalaŭreco
• Finnish: kandidaatin tutkinto
• French: licence (fr)
• German: Bachelor (de) m
• Greek: πτυχίο λυτείας n (ptychío lyteías), πτυχίο (el) n (ptychío)
• Indonesian: kesarjanaan (id)
• Italian: baccelliere (it), laurea (it) f

• Khmer: បរិញ្ញា (pak ri nha), បរិញ្ញាត្រី (pak ri nha trey)
• Latvian: bakalaurs m
• Portuguese: bacharelado (pt) m
• Russian: бакала́вр (ru) m (bakalávr)
• Slovak: bakalárstvo, bakalaureát
• Spanish: bachiller (es) m, título de grado, licenciatura (es) f
• Swedish: kandidat (sv) c
• Tagalog: batsilyer, dalubhasa

person who has achieved bachelor's degree

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 學士 (zh), 学士 (zh) (xuéshì)

• Czech: bakalář (cs) m, bakalářka (cs) f
• Danish: bachelor (da) c
• Esperanto: bakalaŭro
• Finnish: kandidaatti (fi)
• German: Bachelor (de) m
• Greek: πτυχιούχος (el) m or f (ptychioúchos)
• Hebrew: בּוֹגֵר‎ (he) m (bogér)
• Indonesian: sarjana (id)
• Japanese: 学士 (ja) (がくし, gakushi)

• Khmer: បរិញ្ញា (pak ri nha)
• Latvian: bakalaurs m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bachelor m

  Nynorsk: bachelor m

• Polish: licencjat (pl) m, bakałarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: bacharel (pt) c
• Russian: бакала́вр (ru) m (bakalávr)
• Slovak: bakalár (sk) m, bakalárka f
• Spanish: bachiller (es) m, licenciado (es) m
• Swedish: kandidat (sv) c
• Thai: บัณฑิต (th) (ban-dìt)

(Canada) single room apartment

• Finnish: yksiö (fi)
• Polish: kawalerka (pl) f

• Swedish: etta (sv) c

See also

• spinster
• divorcé
• widower

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• crabhole

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Danish

Noun

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.

Declension

Declension of bachelor

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bachelor	bacheloren	bachelorer	bachelorerne
genitive	bachelors	bachelorens	bachelorers	bachelorernes

Synonyms

• bachelorgrad

References

• “bachelor” in Den Danske Ordbog

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French

Noun

bachelor m (plural bachelors)

1. bachelor (degree)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English bachelor, from Old French bacheler

Noun

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)

Derived terms

• bachelorgrad

References

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

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English bachelor, from Old French bacheler

Noun

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)

Derived terms

• bachelorgrad

References

• “bachelor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.