unmarried+man

  • 91bachelor flat — bachelor .flat n BrE an apartment where an unmarried man or woman lives …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 92bachelor — [13] The ultimate origins of bachelor are obscure, but by the time it first turned up, in Old French bacheler (from a hypothetical Vulgar Latin *baccalāris), it meant ‘squire’ or ‘young knight in the service of an older knight’. This was the… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 93bach — 1845, American English, clipped form of BACHELOR (Cf. bachelor) (n.). Also in colloquial American English use as a verb (1870) meaning to live as an unmarried man, especially to do one s own cooking and cleaning. Related: Bached; baching …

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  • 94widow — {{11}}widow (n.) O.E. widewe, widuwe, from P.Gmc. *widewo (Cf. O.S. widowa, O.Fris. widwe, M.Du., Du. weduwe, Du. weeuw, O.H.G. wituwa, Ger. Witwe, Goth. widuwo), from PIE adj. *widhewo (Cf. Skt. vidhuh lonely, solitary, vidhava …

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  • 95bachelor — bach·e·lor || bætʃəlÉ™ n. unmarried man; graduate who holds a bachelor s degree …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 96bachelors — bach·e·lor || bætʃəlÉ™ n. unmarried man; graduate who holds a bachelor s degree …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 97live in sin — live together when unmarried (man and woman) …

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  • 98couple —    1. (with)    to copulate with    The standard meanings are to marry of humans and to copulate of animals:     Thou hast coupled this Hindoo slut. (Fraser, 1975, writing in archaic style)     Only ten minutes ago she had been coupling with me… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 99bachelor flat — noun (C) a set of rooms where an unmarried man lives …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 100bachelor — bach•e•lor [[t]ˈbætʃ ə lər, ˈbætʃ lər[/t]] n. 1) an unmarried man 2) a person who has been awarded a bachelor s degree 3) zool. a young male fur seal kept from the breeding grounds by the older males • Etymology: 1250–1300; ME bacheler < OF… …

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