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In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education, not equal to the level of a bachelor's degree.

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 Meanings and Examples of BACHELOR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bachelor
 n.  the first or lowest academic degree from colleges
 n.  unmarried man
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  Jonas was a Yankee and a bachelor, and the fact that he was an overseer forever barred him from any contact with the County social life.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  Charles' Uncle Henry Hamilton, who lived in bachelor state at the Atlanta Hotel near the depot, also talked seriously to her on this subject.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  Such knowledge sat ill upon a bachelor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
4  His heart was sore and bewildered at Suellen's conduct and his vanity, the shy, touchy vanity of a middle-aged bachelor who knows himself to be unattractive to women, was deeply wounded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  Wutherspoon, known as "Raymie," professional bachelor, manager and one half the sales-force in the shoe-department of the Bon Ton Store.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  Carol suggested that Miss Sherwin stay for supper, and that Kennicott invite Guy Pollock, the much-praised lawyer, the poetic bachelor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
7  Other bachelor homesteaders used canned milk, to save trouble.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
8  Accordingly our homestead was rented to 'that good woman, the Widow Steavens,' and her bachelor brother, and we bought Preacher White's house, at the north end of Black Hawk.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: I
9  Mary Dusak had been housekeeper for a bachelor rancher from Boston, and after several years in his service she was forced to retire from the world for a short time.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IX
10  THAT evening Mr. Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre spirits and sat down to dinner without relish.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
11  Mr. Bounderby being a bachelor, an elderly lady presided over his establishment, in consideration of a certain annual stipend.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
12  Mother Sparsit never set her cap at Bounderby when he was a bachelor.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
13  It was a handsome old stucco hall, very elegantly appointed, for Winter was a bachelor and prided himself on his style; but the place was beset by collieries.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
14  This was a hard hit at Mr. Grimwig, who was a bachelor.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a bachelor.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
Example Sentence:
1  All the girls in our school adore the handsome mathematics teacher who happens to be a bachelor.
2  A soon-to-be-married man's friends throw him the ultimate bachelor party.
3  She holds an honors bachelor of Science degree from University of Toronto, specializing in zoology and behavior.
4  A feudal knight ranking between a knight bachelor and a baron, who was entitled to lead men into battle under his own standard.
5  The perennial bachelor vowed to remain celibate.
6  In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education, not equal to the level of a bachelor's degree.
7  The flat contained the basic essentials for bachelor life.
8  Better a bachelor's life than a slovenly wife.