Spinster vs Bachelor - What's the difference?
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A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.
* Coke
One who spins (puts a spin on) a political media story so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance; a spin doctor, spin merchant or spin master.
(obsolete) Someone whose occupation was spinning thread.
* ~1601 , William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night , act II, scene IV:
(obsolete) A woman of evil life and character; so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.
(rare) A spider; an insect (such as a silkworm) which spins thread.
(Webster 1913)
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.
In obsolete terms the difference between spinster and bachelor
is that spinster is a woman of evil life and character; so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction while bachelor is among London tradesmen, a junior member not yet admitted to wear the livery.As nouns the difference between spinster and bachelor
is that spinster is a woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions while bachelor is a man who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.spinster
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(wikipedia spinster)Noun
(en noun)- If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster , she may abate the writ.
- The spinsters and the knitters in the sun.
Synonyms
* old maidSee also
* bachelor * widow * divorcee ----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)