bach·e·lor (b ch  -lr, bchlr)n. 1. An unmarried man. 2. A person who has completed the undergraduate curriculum of a college or university and holds a bachelor's degree. 3. A male animal that does not mate during the breeding season, especially a young male fur seal kept from the breeding territory by older males. 4. A young knight in the service of another knight in feudal times. [Middle English bacheler, squire, youth, bachelor, from Old French, from Medieval Latin baccal  rius, tenant farmer, perhaps of Celtic origin.]bach e·lor·dom, bache·lor·hood , bache·lor·ship n. |
Bachelory, Bachelordom a group of bachelors; young knights as a class.
Example: a fair host of boys bachelerie, 1297.
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