Definition of "bachelor" in английский

noun

1. A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.

   • I shall die a bachelor.

2. The first or lowest academic degree conferred by colleges and universities; a bachelor's degree.

3. Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.

4. (Canada) A bachelor apartment.

5. (obsolete) An unmarried woman.

6. (obsolete) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field.

7. (obsolete) Among London tradesmen, a junior member not yet admitted to wear the livery.

8. A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxis annularis) of the southern United States.