Bachelorette vs Bachelor - What's the difference?
bachelorette | bachelor |
(North America) An unmarried woman.
(Canada) A very small bachelor (single room) apartment.
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.
Bachelor is a derived term of bachelorette.
In canada terms the difference between bachelorette and bachelor
is that bachelorette is a very small bachelor (single room) apartment while bachelor is a bachelor apartment.As nouns the difference between bachelorette and bachelor
is that bachelorette is an unmarried woman while bachelor is a man who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.bachelorette
English
Noun
(en noun)See also
* spinsterReferences
*bachelor
English
Alternative forms
* bachelour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound.
- (Ben Jonson)