batchelor

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proper noun

A surname.

Less commonScrabble 16

Meanings

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nounbatchelor (plural batchelors)

plural batchelors

  1. UKarchaicArchaic spelling of bachelor.

    […] could Richard have anticipated that his elder brother, Sir Everard, taking to heart an early disappointment, would have remained a batchelor at seventy-two.

    1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC

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batchelor. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/batchelor

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“batchelor.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/batchelor. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “batchelor,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/batchelor.

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