Meanings
batchelor1
plural batchelors
- 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
Batchelor2
- A surname.
- A town in Coomalie Shire, Northern Territory, Australia, named after Lee Batchelor.
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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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