bachelor

1. 1.

   lead a bachelor's existence

   Synonymsbach

   Broaderlive

Other forms of bachelor

plural

bachelors·

past tense

bachelorred·

present participle

bachelorring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bachelor

What does bachelor mean?

bachelor means "a man who has never been married". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bachelor?

bachelor has 3 syllables: bac-he-lor. The stress falls on "bac". In IPA it is /ˈbætʃəlɚ/.

What is another word for bachelor?

Close synonyms include unmarried man, knight bachelor, bachelor-at-arms, bach. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bachelor a common word?

bachelor is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.