bachelorette

bachelorette

English

Etymology

From bachelor +‎ -ette. Displaced maid.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbætʃləˈɹɛt/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /batʃələˈɹɛt/
• Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

bachelorette (plural bachelorettes)

1. (Canada, US) An unmarried woman.
2. (Canada) A very small bachelor (single room) apartment.

Translations

unmarried woman

Belarusian: халасця́чка (xalascjáčka) Bulgarian: мома (bg) f (moma) Esperanto: fraŭlino (eo) Finnish: neiti (fi) French: célibataire (fr) f, demoiselle (fr) f German: Single (de) f, Junggesellin (de), Fräulein (de) Macedonian: мома f (móma)

Polish: panna (pl) f Portuguese: solteira (pt) f Russian: холостя́чка (ru) f (xolostjáčka) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: удавача f, нeудавача f, бећаруша f Roman: udavača (sh) f, neugdavača f, bećaruša (sh) f Slovak: stará dievka

very small single room apartment

Bulgarian: гарсониера f (garsoniera) Finnish: pikkuyksiö

French: chambre de bonne (fr) f, studio (fr) m

See also

• spinster

References

• “bachelorette” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.