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bach

/bæt͡ʃ/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A bachelor.
  2. A small hut, especially for a man living alone.
  3. Now specifically, a holiday home, typically a small, simple house of one or two rooms on the beach.
  4. To live as a bachelor; (chiefly of a man) to live without women, and do one's own cooking, housekeeping etc.
  5. Clipping of bachelorette.
  6. A surname from German.
  7. Johann Sebastian Bach, a German organist and composer.
  8. A surname from Vietnamese.
  9. A motif consisting of the notes B flat, A, C, B natural.

Etymology / origin

Abbreviation of bachelor (or, in later senses, of bachelor pad).

  1. Bach(German)
  2. bach (English)
  3. Relations: der

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