Bach
name, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 A bachelor. US, archaic, slang
- 2 Clipping of bachelorette. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
"When I ask people how spending money makes them feel, so many of them respond, "Guilty." ¶ They'll give an example of how a rough day at the office led to buying a pair of shoes online or how they got a little carried away at their friend's bach party in Vegas."
- 3 the music of Bach wordnet
- 4 A small hut, especially for a man living alone. New-Zealand
- 5 Now specifically, a holiday home, typically a small, simple house of one or two rooms on the beach. New-Zealand
"She stops the car by an ochre-coloured bach at the end of the beachline, by the shelter of a massive thicket of African thorn."
- 1 To live as a bachelor; (chiefly of a man) to live without women, and do one's own cooking, housekeeping etc. Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US, archaic
"I hurried home to the tent—I was batching with a carpenter."
- 2 lead a bachelor's existence wordnet
- 1 A surname from German.
- 2 A surname from Vietnamese.
- 3 A motif consisting of the notes B flat, A, C, B natural.
- 4 Johann Sebastian Bach, a German organist and composer.
Antonyms
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More examples"Bach and Handel were contemporaries."
Etymology
Abbreviation of bachelor (or, in later senses, of bachelor pad).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg-der. Proto-Germanic *bakiz Proto-West Germanic *baki German Bachbor. English Bach From German Bach. The surname was brought to the Anglo-Saxon world by immigrants from other Germanic countries. Doublet of Beach.
Borrowed from Vietnamese Bạch. Doublet of Bai.
Borrowed from German BACH.