Bach
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /bæt͡ʃ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bach is a noun meaning (US slang, now rare) A bachelor.
Meaning
(US slang, now rare) A bachelor.
More Meanings
- (New Zealand) A small hut, especially for a man living alone.
- (New Zealand) Now specifically, a holiday home, typically a small, simple house of one or two rooms on the beach.
- (colloquial) Clipping of bachelorette.
- (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, now rare) To live as a bachelor; (chiefly of a man) to live without women, and do one's own cooking, housekeeping etc.
Example Sentences
I hurried home to the tent—I was batching with a carpenter.
Bachelorette party captions for Instagram […] Babes, baches, bikinis, and boats.
Even before he began his chores he sunbathed naked against the east wall of the bach for half an hour.
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.
Word Forms
- baches
- baching
- bached
Synonyms for bach
Depending on context, synonyms include crib, bachelor.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bachelor, rita, hut, shack, shanty, chalet.
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