A person who has completed the undergraduate curriculum of a college or university and holds a bachelor's degree.
A male animal that does not mate during the breeding season, especially a young male fur seal kept from the breeding territory by older males.
A young knight in the service of another knight in feudal times.
[Middle English bacheler, squire, youth, bachelor, from Old French, from Medieval Latin baccalārius, tenant farmer, perhaps of Celtic origin.] bach'e·lor·dom, bach'e·lor·hood', bach'e·lor·ship' n.
(bāch'ə-lər, bāch'lər) 