Bachelor
Bachelor (bach"e*lẽr) , noun
[Old French bacheler young man, French bachelier (compare Pr. bacalar, Sp. bachiller, Portuguese bacharel, Italian baccalare), Late Latin baccalarius the tenant of a kind of farm called baccalaria, a soldier not old or rich enough to lead his retainers into battle with a banner, a person of an inferior academical degree aspiring to a doctorate. In the latter sense, it was afterward changed to baccalaureus. See Baccalaureate, n.]
1.
A man of any age who has not been married.
As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound.
2.
An unmarried woman. [Obsolete] — B. Jonson
3.
A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts.
4.
A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.
5.
In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member. [Obsolete]
6.
(Zoology) A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.