bachelor girl

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noun
  1. Older Use: Sometimes Offensive. an unmarried woman, especially a young one, who supports herself and lives alone.

Origin of bachelor girl

1
First recorded in 1890–95

usage note For bachelor girl

See girl.

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How to use bachelor girl in a sentence

  • Some years ago there lived in Vienna a very pretty bachelor girl, a sales-person in a very respectable shop.

    Criminal Psychology | Hans Gross
  • I am going to share lodgings with one of them, and be a bachelor girl on my own account.

    The Independence of Claire | Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
  • It will be quite an amusing experience to live the life of a bachelor girl.

    The Independence of Claire | Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
  • One assumes, of course, that she intends to remain a “bachelor girl.”

    An Ocean Tramp | William McFee
  • At last Katherine was the bachelor girl she had longed to be, but the pleasures of freedom were as Dead Sea fruit to the lips.

    A Rock in the Baltic | Robert Barr

British Dictionary definitions for bachelor girl

bachelor girl

noun
  1. a young unmarried woman, esp one who is self-supporting

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