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

Sensitive Note

See girl.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bachelor girl¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

The accompanying text noted that she had been married briefly and was “now a bachelor girl.”

From New York Times

In fact she rather prided herself upon this, and upon being an independent bachelor girl who could always make her own way.

From Project Gutenberg

They would take a studio together in Boston—perhaps in New York—and live the ideal life of bachelor girls.

From Project Gutenberg

You know those bachelor girls about seventy-five apiece, over on Church Street near Aunt Louise's—the Miss Clarks?

From Project Gutenberg

A spinster, or as the modern woman likes to call herself, the "bachelor girl," may not use cards engraved merely Miss Gray, unless she is the oldest daughter of a family.

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