| bachelor | |
| 1. n. A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet. | |
| 2. n. The first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges; a bachelor's degree. | |
| 3. n. Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree. | |
| 4. n. (Canada) A bachelor apartment. | |
| 5. n. (obsolete) An unmarried woman. | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) Among London tradesmen, a junior member not yet admitted to wear the livery. | |
| 8. n. A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish of the southern United States. | |
