Bachelor

Bachelor

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:

    “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)

    “Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can’t soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “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)