Licentiate vs Bachelor - What's the difference?
licentiate | bachelor |
A person who holds the academic degree of license.
One who has a licence to exercise a profession.
* Johnson
A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy.
One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty.
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.
As nouns the difference between bachelor and licentiate
is that bachelor is a man who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet while licentiate is a person who holds the academic degree of license.licentiate
English
(wikipedia licentiate)Noun
(en noun)- a licentiate in medicine or theology
- The college of physicians, in July, 1687, published an edict, requiring all the fellows, candidates, and licentiates , to give gratuitous advice to the neighbouring poor.
- (Chaucer)
- (Bishop Hall)
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)