Bachelor vs Independent - What's the difference?
bachelor | independent |
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.
not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free
(politics) not affiliated with any political party
Providing a comfortable livelihood.
Not subject to bias or influence; self-directing.
Separate from; exclusive; irrespective.
* R. P. Ward
A candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a free thinker, free of a party platform.
A neutral or uncommitted person.
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As nouns the difference between bachelor and independent
is that bachelor is an academic degree without specification of the field of studies while independent is a candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a free thinker, free of a party platform.As an adjective independent is
not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; free.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") *independent
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Adjective
(en adjective)- an independent property
- a man of an independent mind
- That obligation in general, under which we conceive ourselves bound to obey a law, independent of those resources which the law provides for its own enforcement.