What's the difference between bachelor and bachelordom?

Bachelor


Definition:

  • (n.) A man of any age who has not been married.
  • (n.) An unmarried woman.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field; often, a young knight.
  • (n.) In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member.
  • (n.) A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Andrew Bachelor AKA King Bach (@KingBach) Andrew Bachelor.
  • (2) Nancy Davis was a middle-ranking film actor in her 20s when she received her initial introduction to Reagan, having already told a friend that he was top of her list of Hollywood’s eligible bachelors.
  • (3) The minister defended his reforms, saying the planned expansion of funding for sub-bachelor programs would "spread opportunity to more students".
  • (4) Now trapped in an occupied city, she takes on a job as a housekeeper to mysterious bachelor Gabriel Ortega.
  • (5) At the end of the Colonial period, only 4 latin physicians and 3 bachelors in Medicine had graduated from the Universidad San Felipe, from an initial enrollment of 38 students in half a century.
  • (6) The purposes of this study were to identify the clinical teaching behaviors perceived as most effective and most hindering by students and CIs and to compare the response rates of students in bachelor's and master's degree programs.
  • (7) The greatest differences emerged between the bachelor's, postbaccalaureate certificate, and basic master's groups and the advanced master's and other master's groups, thus supporting the association between increased education and increased professional involvement.
  • (8) The manager most likely to use computers was a man of any age with at least a bachelor's degree who was employed full-time within the institution.
  • (9) The direct in vitro actions of tPRL177 and tPRL188 on basal and ovine luteinizing hormone (LH)-induced testosterone production in minced testes of courting and noncourting (bachelor) tilapia were examined.
  • (10) Lots of people write in to me asking if Mays is "a bachelor".
  • (11) Photograph: Alamy Schools are still out for summer, but it's time to count the cost of uniforms - kitting out a child for the autumn term can add up to more than £100, says Lisa Bachelor.
  • (12) Singles Day in China was invented by students in the 1990s as Bachelors’ Day – a day to meet prospective partners and hang out with single friends eating deep-fried dough sticks representing the four ones in 11.11 or steamed buns which represent the dot.
  • (13) A systems framework was used to study the unusual failure rate on the National Council Licensing Examination (NCLEX) experienced by one-third of the 1983 graduates of a Northwestern Bachelor of Science Nursing (BSN) program.
  • (14) Over the past four decades, those with bachelor’s degree have tended to earn 56% more than high school graduates while those with an associate’s degree have tended to earn 21% more than high school graduates,” found the report.
  • (15) One example is their work with universities to establish a bachelor of social work degree which has just produced its first graduates.
  • (16) The median age at death was 89.4 years for sisters with educational attainment of a bachelor's degree or higher, 82.2 years for sisters with some high school or college education, and 82.0 years for sisters with only a grade school education.
  • (17) Personnel with bachelor's degrees did have more counseling responsibilities than those with more advanced degrees.
  • (18) Results of a five-year investigation at the University of San Francisco of the impact-as measured by the students' perceptions of their collegiate experience-of an innovative four-year curriculum, leading to a bachelors degree and professional preparation in nursing, are summarized.
  • (19) She declined to detail how many times the “chairman’s scholarship” has been awarded previously, but the institute’s website makes no references to the scholarship and states the institute “does not currently offer scholarships to gain a place into the Bachelor of Design” .
  • (20) Its 2011 sequel, The Hangover Part II , shifted the stag-do antics of bachelor quartet Phil Wenneck, Stu Price, Alan Garner and Doug Billings from Las Vegas to Bangkok and once again broke box-office records.

Bachelordom


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Teachout gives us a fast-moving overview of Mencken's career, his influential co-editorship of the raffish society magazine Smart Set and of the countercultural American Mercury, his amorous bachelordom, his final decades when his memoirs gave him a renewed popularity after years in political exile during the 1930s.

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