bachelorhood

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English bachelor

Proto-Indo-European *keyt-der.

Proto-Germanic *haiduzder.

Proto-West Germanic *-haiduder.

Old English -hād

Middle English -hede

English -hood

English bachelorhood

From bachelor + -hood.

Pronunciation

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Noun

bachelorhood (countable and uncountable, plural bachelorhoods)

1. The condition of being a bachelor.
   • 2009 July 21, David Updike, Old Girlfriends‎^[1]:

     He had been alone, girlfriendless, for nearly a year, and had sort of adjusted to bachelorhood […]

Synonyms

• bachelordom
• bachelorship

Translations

the condition of being a bachelor

• Albanian: beqari (sq) n
• Esperanto: fraŭleco
• Finnish: naimattomuus (fi)
• French: célibat (fr) m
• Greek: αγαμία (el) f (agamía)
• Hungarian: nőtlenség (hu)
• Icelandic: einlífi (is) n, einhleypni f, ókvæni n
• Japanese: 独身 (ja) (dokushin)
• Khmer: ភាពកំលោះ (pheap kom los)
• Macedonian: ергенство n (ergenstvo), беќарство n (beḱarstvo)
• Punjabi: ਕੁਆਰਪਣ m (kuārapaṇ)
• Slovak: staromládenectvo
• Swahili: useja (sw)