different between bachelor vs scholar

English

Etymology

From Middle English bacheler, from Anglo-Norman and Old French bacheler (modern French bachelier), from Medieval Latin baccal?rius, from Late Latin baccal?ris (compare Tuscan baccalare (“squire”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?bæt?.?.l?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?bæt?.?.l?/, /?bæt?.l?/
• Hyphenation: ba?che?lor

Noun

bachelor (plural bachelors)

1. A person, especially a man, who is socially regarded as able to marry, but has not yet.

   • As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound.

   • 1933, S. N. Behrman, Queen Christina:

     I shall die a bachelor.

2. The first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges; a bachelor's degree.
3. Someone who has achieved a bachelor's degree.
4. (Canada) A bachelor apartment.
5. (obsolete) An unmarried woman.

   • A bachelor still, by keeping of your portion :
     And keep you not alone without a husband

6. (obsolete) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field.
7. (obsolete) Among London tradesmen, a junior member not yet admitted to wear the livery.
8. A kind of bass, an edible freshwater fish (Pomoxis annularis) of the southern United States.

Alternative forms

• bachelour (obsolete)
• batcheler
• batchelor

Synonyms

• (academic degree): baccalaureate

Antonyms

• (unmarried person): wedder, bachelorette

Derived terms

• confirmed bachelor
• bachelor's degree
• bachelordom
• bachelorette (North America)
• bachelorhood
• Bachelor of Arts
• Bachelor of Science
• bachelor pad
• bachelor party
• bachelorship
• bachelor's button
• bachelor's fare

Translations

See also

• spinster
• divorcé
• widower

Further reading

• bachelor on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bachelor in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• crabhole

Danish

Etymology

From English bachelor

Noun

bachelor c (singular definite bacheloren, plural indefinite bachelorer or bachelors)

1. bachelor's degree

Declension

Synonyms

• bachelorgrad

References

• “bachelor” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From English bachelor

Noun

bachelor m (plural bachelors)

1. bachelor (degree)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English bachelor, from Old French bacheler

Noun

bachelor m (definite singular bacheloren, indefinite plural bachelorer, definite plural bachelorene)

1. a bachelor (person holding a bachelor's degree)
2. a bachelor's degree (bachelorgrad)

Derived terms

• bachelorgrad

References

• “bachelor” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “bachelor” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English bachelor, from Old French bacheler

Noun

bachelor m (definite singular bacheloren, indefinite plural bachelorar, definite plural bachelorane)

1. a bachelor (person holding a bachelor's degree)
2. a bachelor's degree (bachelorgrad)

Derived terms

• bachelorgrad

References

• “bachelor” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Etymology

From Middle English scolar, scolare, scoler, scolere (also scholer), from Old English sc?lere (“scholar, learner”), from Late Latin schol?ris, from schola (“school”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (skholeîon), from ????? (skhol?, “spare time, leisure", later, "conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), equivalent to school +? -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Sköiler, Middle Low German sch?lære, sch?lere, sch?ler (> modern German Low German Schöler), Dutch scholier, German Schüler. Doublet of escolar.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sk?l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sk?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?(r)

Noun

scholar (plural scholars)

1. A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship.
2. A specialist in a particular branch of knowledge.
3. A learned person; a bookman.

Synonyms

• (student): pupil, student
• (specialist): expert, specialist
• (learned person): academic, learned person, savant, scholarly person, erudite

Derived terms

Related terms

• scholiast

Translations

See also

• savant

Further reading

• scholar in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• scholar in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• chorals, lorchas, orchals