bachelor
/ˈbæt͡ʃ.ə.lɚ/ noun B2- 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.
- 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.
Plural bachelors
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Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,
Perhaps an old maid doesn’t know much about bringing up a child, but I guess she knows more than an old bachelor.
“‘You must know,’ said he, ‘that though I am a bachelor, I have to keep up a considerable staff of servants at Hurlstone, for it is a rambling old place, and takes a good deal of looking after.
A little diplomacy was needed, but when Holmes understood that the establishment was a bachelor one, and that he would be allowed the fullest freedom, he fell in with my plans and a week after our return from Lyons we were under the Colonel’s roof.
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