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View synonyms for bachelor girl

bachelor girl

noun

  1. Older Use: Sometimes Offensive. an unmarried woman, especially a young one, who supports herself and lives alone.


bachelor girl

noun

  1. a young unmarried woman, esp one who is self-supporting
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Sensitive Note

See girl.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bachelor girl1

First recorded in 1890–95
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Example Sentences

Some years ago there lived in Vienna a very pretty bachelor girl, a sales-person in a very respectable shop.

I am going to share lodgings with one of them, and be a bachelor girl on my own account.

It will be quite an amusing experience to live the life of a bachelor girl.

One assumes, of course, that she intends to remain a “bachelor girl.”

At last Katherine was the bachelor girl she had longed to be, but the pleasures of freedom were as Dead Sea fruit to the lips.

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