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Licentiate vs Bachelor - What's the difference?

licentiate | bachelor |

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

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who holds the academic degree of license.
  • One who has a licence to exercise a profession.
  • a licentiate in medicine or theology
  • * Johnson
  • 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.
  • A friar authorized to receive confessions and grant absolution in all places, independently of the local clergy.
  • (Chaucer)
  • One who acts without restraint, or takes a liberty.
  • (Bishop Hall)

    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") *