Bachelor vs Chaste - What's the difference?
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A man who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
* Washington Irving
The first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges; a bachelor's degree.
(senseid)Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
(Canada) A bachelor apartment.
(obsolete) An unmarried woman.
(obsolete) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field.
(obsolete) Among London tradesmen, a junior member not yet admitted to wear the livery.
A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxys annularis ) of the southern United States.
abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate
virginal, innocent, having had no sexual experience
simple, austere, undecorative
modest, decent, morally pure
Bachelor is a related term of chaste.
As a noun bachelor
is an academic degree without specification of the field of studies.As an adjective chaste is
abstaining from sexual intercourse, celibate.bachelor
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Alternative forms
* bachelour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound.
- (Ben Jonson)
Synonyms
* (academic degree) baccalaureateDerived terms
* confirmed bachelor * bachelordom * bachelorette (North America) * bachelorhood * Bachelor of Arts * Bachelor of Science * bachelor pad * bachelor party * bachelorship * bachelor's button * bachelor's degreeSee also
* spinster * * widower * (wikipedia "bachelor") *chaste
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Adjective
(er)- a chaste style in composition or art
- a chaste''' mind; '''chaste eyes