bachelorette

English

Etymology

From bachelor +‎ -ette. Displaced maid.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌbatʃləˈɹɛt/, /ˌbatʃələˈɹɛt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌbætʃləˈɹɛt/, /ˌbætʃələˈɹɛt/

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• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

bachelorette (plural bachelorettes)

1. (Canada, US) An unmarried woman.

   Synonym: (dated) bacheloress

   Coordinate term: spinster

2. (Canada) A very small bachelor (single room) apartment.

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
• Italian: signorina (it) f, nubile (it) f
• Macedonian: мома (mk) 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

References

• Katherine Barber, editor (1998), “bachelorette”, in The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.