bachelorette

English

Etymology

From bachelor +‎ -ette. Displaced maid.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌbætʃləˈɹɛt/
(UK) IPA^(key): /batʃələˈɹɛt/
Rhymes: -ɛt

Noun

bachelorette (plural bachelorettes)

(Canada, US) An unmarried woman.
(Canada) A very small bachelor (single room) apartment.

Translations

unmarried woman

Belarusian: халасця́чка (xalascjáčka)
Bulgarian: мома (bg) f (moma)
Esperanto: fraŭlino (eo)
Finnish: neiti (fi)
French: célibataire (fr) f, demoiselle (fr) f
German: Single (de) f, Junggesellin (de), Fräulein (de)
Macedonian: мома f (móma)

Polish: panna (pl) f
Portuguese: solteira (pt) f
Russian: холостя́чка (ru) f (xolostjáčka)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: удавача f, нeудавача f, бећаруша f

Roman: udavača (sh) f, neugdavača f, bećaruša (sh) f
Slovak: stará dievka

very small single room apartment

Bulgarian: гарсониера f (garsoniera)
Finnish: pikkuyksiö

French: chambre de bonne (fr) f, studio (fr) m

See also

spinster

References

“bachelorette” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.

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