bachelorette

English

Etymology

From bachelor +‎ -ette. Displaced maid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbæt͡ʃləˈɹɛt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /batʃələˈɹɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

bachelorette (plural bachelorettes)

1. (Canada, US) An unmarried woman.
2. (Canada) A very small bachelor (single room) apartment.

Synonyms

• (woman): bacheloress (dated)

Derived terms

• bachelorette pad
• bachelorette party

 

Translations

unmarried woman

• Afrikaans: vrygesellin
• Arabic: عَزْبَاء f (ʕazbāʔ)
• Belarusian: халасця́чка (xalascjáčka)
• Bulgarian: мома (bg) f (moma)
• Dutch: vrijgezellin (nl) f, jonggezellin f, single (nl) f
• Esperanto: fraŭlino (eo)
• Finnish: neiti (fi)
• French: célibataire (fr) f, demoiselle (fr) f
• German: Single (de) f, Junggesellin (de) f, Fräulein (de) n
• Macedonian: мома f (moma)
• Polish: panna (pl) f
• Portuguese: solteira (pt) f
• Russian: холостя́чка (ru) f (xolostjáčka)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: удавача f, нeудавача f, бећаруша f

  Roman: udavača (sh) f, neudavača f, bećaruša f

• Slovak: stará dievka
• Tarifit: taniybut f

very small single room apartment

• Bulgarian: гарсоние́ра f (garsoniéra)
• Finnish: pikkuyksiö
• French: chambre de bonne (fr) f, studio (fr) m

See also

• spinster

References

• “bachelorette” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.