How to pronounce bachelor
American English pronunciation
BACH-uh-ler
- IPA
- /ˈbætʃəlɚ/
- Syllables
- BACH · uh · ler (3 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What bachelor means
Most people know bachelor in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.
A knight who served under another knight's banner
In a sentence: The bachelor had no banner of his own, so he rode beneath his lord's.
Where it comes from: It comes from the old French bacheler, from the Latin baccalarius. The unmarried-man meaning comes from the same word.
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