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A bachelor is a man who is neither married nor dating and who lives independently outside of his parents' home or other institutional setting..〕}} ==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 ' presumably derives from Provençal ' and Italian ',〔 but the ultimate source of the word is uncertain.〔''Oxford English Dictionary'', 1st ed. "(bachelor, ''n.'' )" Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1885.〕 The proposed Medieval Latin *''ラテン語: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 Latin ''ラテン語:baccalaria'' ("cattle ranch", from ''ラテン語:bacca'', "cow"). Alternatively, it has been derived from Latin ''ラテン語: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 ''ラテン語:baccalarius'' or ''ラテン語: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 ''ラテン語:in statu pupillari''. There were two classes of ''ラテン語:baccalarii'': the ''ラテン語:baccalarii cursores'', theological candidates passed for admission to the divinity course, and the ''ラテン語:baccalarii dispositi'', who had completed the course and were entitled to proceed to the higher degrees. In the Victorian era, the term eligible bachelor was used in the context of upper class matchmaking, denoting a young man who was not only unmarried and eligible for marriage, but also considered "eligible" in financial and social terms for the prospective bride under discussion. Also in the Victorian era, the term "confirmed bachelor" connoted a man who was resolute to remain unmarried. By the later 19th century, the term "bachelor" had acquired the general sense of "unmarried man". The expression bachelor party is recorded 1882. In 1895, a feminine equivalent "bachelor-girl" was coined, replaced in US English by the somewhat humorous "bachelorette" by the mid-1930s. After World War II, this terminology came to be seen as antiquated and has been mostly replaced by the gender-neutral term "single" (first recorded 1964). In England and Wales, the term "bachelor" remained the official term used for the purpose of marriage registration until 2005, when it was abolished in favor of "single." In certain Gulf Arab countries, "bachelor" can refer to men who are single as well as immigrant men married to a spouse residing in their country of origin (due to the high added cost of sponsoring a spouse onsite), and a colloquial term "executive bachelor" is also used in rental and sharing accommodation advertisements to indicate availability to white-collar bachelors in particular.〔() 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「bachelor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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