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

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

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

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

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

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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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