Bachelor

A bachelor is a man of legal age who's never married.

Etymology

The word is first attested as the 12th-century bacheler, a knight bachelor, a knight too young or poor to gather vassals under his own banner. The Old French bacheler presumably derives from Provençal bacalar and Italian baccalare, but the ultimate source of the word is uncertain. The proposed Medieval Latin *baccalaris ("vassal", "field hand") is only attested late enough that it may have derived from the vernacular languages, rather than from the southern French and northern Spanish Latinbaccalaria ("cattle ranch", from bacca, "cow"). Alternatively, it has been derived from Latin baculum ("a stick"), in reference to the wooden sticks used by knights in training.

From the 14th century, the term was also used for a junior member of a guild (otherwise known as "yeomen") or university and then for low-level ecclesiastics, as young monks and recently appointed canons. As an inferior grade of scholarship, it came to refer to one holding a "bachelor's degree". This sense of baccalarius or baccalaureus is first attested at the University of Paris in the 13th century in the system of degrees established under the auspices of Pope Gregory IX as applied to scholars still in statu pupillari. There were two classes of baccalarii: the baccalarii cursores, theological candidates passed for admission to the divinity course, and the baccalarii dispositi, who had completed the course and were entitled to proceed to the higher degrees.

Bachelor (disambiguation)

A bachelor is an unmarried man.

It is also the title of anyone of any gender or marital status who holds a bachelor's degree.

It may also refer to:

Companies

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Film and TV

Bachelor (song)

"Bachelor" is a song by Nigerian Afrobeat artist D'banj. The song serves as the fourth single from the album D'Kings Men (2013), a collaboration between members of D'banj's label DB Records.

Music video

The music video was directed by Sesan in Atlanta, Georgia. It tells the story of a bachelor's life—fast cars, big mansions, lots of girls, etc. D’banj opens the video as a young man who argues with his somewhat possessive girlfriend in a white mansion.

Critical reception

Ayomide Tayo of Nigerian Entertainment Today said that "Bachelor is another concrete pop concoction with its hard hitting bassline. The beats don’t do all the work."

Charles Mgbolu of Vanguard added that "The beats of the approximately two and a half minutes song are in mid-tempo and almost immediately, "slowly" gets your head nodding. There is emphasis on "slowly" here because, just like Oyato, this song didn’t quite pick up pace, making it’s [sic] climax weak. You listen to it and just when you are expecting more, something that would leap you off your feet…it's over."