Other forms: bachelorettes
A bachelorette is an unmarried woman, the counterpart of a bachelor. A bachelorette party, a young bachelorette, still a bachelorette.
It is American and appears above all in bachelorette party, the night before a wedding, which Britain calls a hen night. The word displaced spinster, which had grown so unkind that it could not be used neutrally at all.
1nounbacheloretteAn unmarried woman, the counterpart of a bachelor.
“At thirty-five, she was a happy bachelorette with no plans to marry.”
bachelorette is a person.
Bachelor plus the French feminine ending -ette. It replaced the older and now insulting spinster.
Medieval Latin
baccalārius
Old French
bacheler
Middle English
bacheler
English
bachelor
English, today
bachelorette
Built from
From bachelor + ette. Displaced maid. bachelor comes from Middle English bacheler, from Anglo-Norman - and Old French bacheler (modern French bachelier), from Medieval Latin baccalārius, baccalāris (compare Tuscan baccalare (“squire”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA