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Bachelorship

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bach·e·lor  (bch-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 baccalrius, tenant farmer, perhaps of Celtic origin.]
bache·lor·dom, bache·lor·hood, bache·lor·ship n.


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He had accomplished a distance vastly greater than a bachelorship of arts, or a dozen bachelorships.
Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context
For my own part I freely confess that, in my bachelorship, I was precisely such an over-curious simpleton as I now advise the reader not to be.
Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
He thought about a great many things--about his present troubles and past days of bachelorship, and about the Lincoln greens, long since dispersed up and down the country, no one knew whither: with the exception of two who had been unfortunately beheaded, and four who had killed themselves with drinking.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context
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