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bachelorette

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˌbatʃləˈɹɛt//
  • United Kingdom//ˌbatʃələˈɹɛt//
  • United States//ˌbætʃləˈɹɛt//
  • United States//ˌbætʃələˈɹɛt//

An unmarried woman.

noun

  1. 1

    An unmarried woman.

    Coordinate term: spinster

  2. 2

    A very small bachelor (single room) apartment.

Etymology

From bachelor + -ette. Displaced maid.

Forms

plural
bachelorettes
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).