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語源

From 中期英語 bacheler, from Anglo-Norman and Old French bacheler (modern French bachelier), from Medieval Latin baccalārius, baccalāris (compare Tuscan baccalare (“squire”)).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbæt͡ʃ.ə.lə(ɹ)/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈbæt͡ʃ.ə.lɚ/, /ˈbæt͡ʃ.lɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈbæt͡ʃ.ə.lə(ɹ)/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈbɛt͡ʃ.ə.lə(ɹ)/
• ハイフネーション: bach‧e‧lor

名詞

bachelor (plural bachelors)

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

   Antonym: wedder

   Coordinate term: bachelorette

   • 1824, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], Tales of a Traveller, (please specify |part=1 to 4), Philadelphia, Pa.: H[enry] C[harles] Carey & I[saac] Lea, […], →OCLC:

     As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound.

   • 1933, S. N. Behrman, Queen Christina:

     I shall die a bachelor.

   • 1982, Roy Wilkins, Tom Mathews, Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins - Volume 10, page 79:

     I knew from the beginning that I would have to move fast to keep Minnie to myself. Kansas City was full of rakehell bachelors, all of whom I had to outcourt.

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

   Synonym: baccalaureate

3. Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
4. (Canada) A bachelor apartment.
5. (obsolete) An unmarried woman.
   • 1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     A bachelor still, by keeping of your portion :
     And keep you not alone without a husband

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.

派生語

参考

Further reading

• bachelor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bachelor in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

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