spinster
noun
a woman still unmarried beyond the usual age of marrying.
spinsters
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pluralof spinster.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The closest I have found have been eccentric spinsters and ambivalent parents, in a long line from Doris Lessing and DH Lawrence, Barbara Pym and Rachel Cusk.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 25, 2020
Mrs Morgan ran it with her daughters, who were elderly spinsters.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2016
Considered spinsters back East, both Curtis and Stanley married younger men out West.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2015
It’s a message that doesn’t exactly allay the anxieties the book claims to be militating against—namely that we spinsters aren’t choosing our fates, we’re just losers in the marriage market.
From Slate ● Apr. 9, 2015
For the greater number of her twenty-nine years, Bibi Haldar suffered from an ailment that baffled family, friends, priests, palmists, spinsters, gem therapists, prophets, and fools.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
