batchelor

See also: Batchelor

English

Noun

batchelor (plural batchelors)

1. (British) Archaic spelling of bachelor.
   • 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh:  […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

     […] could Richard have anticipated that his elder brother, Sir Everard, taking to heart an early disappointment, would have remained a batchelor at seventy-two.