A bachelor is a man who is not married (see single person) or who is not in a pair bond. It includes "men who live independently, outside of their parents' home and other institutional settings, who are neither married nor cohabitating".
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Famous quotes containing the word bachelor:
“James Bond in his Sean Connery days ... was the first well-known bachelor on the American scene who was not a drifter or a degenerate and did not eat out of cans.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)
“Somehow, a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy for ever!”
—Helen Rowland (1875–1950)