Meanings
nounbachelorship (countable and uncountable, plural bachelorships)
plural bachelorships
- countableuncountableThe state of being a bachelor.
It implanted a dagger in the heart of one nobleman, who was a hearer by mere chance, and awoke a tender desire in the breast of another, after so long a period of old bachelorship, that mothers of every description had given him up some time ago.
1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XX, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 251
Synonyms & antonyms
Also see
Origin
- Englishbachelor
- Proto-Germanic*skapjaną
- Englishbachelorship
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