bachelorette

English

Etymology

From bachelor +‎ -ette. Displaced maid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbætʃləˈɹɛt/
• (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.

Translations

unmarried woman

• Belarusian: халасця́чка (xalascjáčka)
• Bulgarian: мома (bg) f (moma)
• Esperanto: fraŭlino (eo)
• Finnish: neiti (fi)
• French: célibataire (fr) f, demoiselle (fr) f

• Macedonian: мома f (móma)
• Portuguese: solteira (pt) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: удавача f, нeудавача f, бећаруша f

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

very small single room apartment

• Bulgarian: гарсониера f (garsoniera)
• Finnish: pikkuyksiö

• French: chambre de bonne (fr) f, studio (fr) m

See also

• spinster

References

• “bachelorette” in the Katherine Barker, editor, Canadian Oxford Dictionary, 2nd edition, Don Mills, Ont.; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, →ISBN.