bachelor

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From Middle English bacheler, from Anglo-Norman and Old French bacheler (modern French bachelier), from Medieval Latin baccalārius, baccalāris (compare Tuscan baccalare (squire)).

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bachelor (plural bachelors)

  1. A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.
  2. The first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges; a bachelor's degree.
  3. Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
  4. (Canada) A bachelor apartment.
  5. (obsolete) An unmarried woman.
  6. (obsolete) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field.
  7. (obsolete) Among London tradesmen, a junior member not yet admitted to wear the livery.
  8. A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxis annularis) of the southern United States.

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Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From English bachelor.

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bachelor c (singular definite bacheloren, plural indefinite bachelorer or bachelors)

  1. bachelor's degree
    Hun har en bachelor i mikrobiologi.
    She has a bachelor's degree in microbiology.

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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from English bachelor. Doublet of bachelier.

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bachelor m (plural bachelors)

  1. bachelor's degree

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Etymology[edit]

From English bachelor, from Old French bacheler.

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bachelor m (definite singular bacheloren, indefinite plural bachelorer, definite plural bachelorene)

  1. a bachelor (person holding a bachelor's degree)
  2. a bachelor's degree (bachelorgrad)

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From English bachelor, from Old French bacheler.

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bachelor m (definite singular bacheloren, indefinite plural bachelorar, definite plural bachelorane)

  1. a bachelor (person holding a bachelor's degree)
  2. a bachelor's degree (bachelorgrad)

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