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Honours vs Bachelor - What's the difference?

honours | bachelor |

As nouns the difference between honours and bachelor

is that honours is while bachelor is an academic degree without specification of the field of studies.

As a verb honours

is (honour).

honours

English

Alternative forms

* honors

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (honour)
  • bachelor

    English

    Alternative forms

    * bachelour (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A man who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
  • * Washington Irving
  • As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound.
  • 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.
  • (Ben Jonson)
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (academic degree) baccalaureate

    Derived terms

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

    See also

    * spinster * * widower * (wikipedia "bachelor") *