bachelorette

English

Etymology

From bachelor +‎ -ette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbætʃləˈɹɛt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /batʃələˈrɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

bachelorette ‎(plural bachelorettes)

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

See also

• spinster

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

References

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