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n. (context British English) (alternative spelling of bachelor English)
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Batchelor may refer to:
- Batchelor, Northern Territory, an Australian town
- Batchelor (surname), people with the given name Batchelor
Batchelor is a long established surname in England and Scotland, but the name has Anglo-Norman roots, and may also refer to a person in the glassmaking trade°. Some famous Batchelors:
- Brad Batchelor (born 1949), American chiropractor and independent filmmaker
- C. D. Batchelor (1888–1977), American cartoonist
- Casey Batchelor (born 1984), English glamour model and reality TV star
- Charles Batchelor (1845–1910), American inventor and associate of Thomas Alva Edison
- Daniel Bacheler, also variously spelt Bachiler, Batchiler or Batchelar, (1572-1619), English lutenist and composer
- David Batchelor (disambiguation)
- Doug Batchelor (born 1957), American evangelist of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Edward A. Batchelor (1883–1968), American sportswriter
- Erica Batchelor (born 1933), British figure skater
- George Batchelor (1920–2000), Australian applied mathematician and fluid dynamicist
- Horace Batchelor (1898–1977), British businessman
- Jeff Batchelor (born 1988), Canadian snowboarder
- John Batchelor (disambiguation)
- Joseph B. Batchelor (died 1902), U.S. Army officer, founder of the community of Batchelor in the Philippines
- Joy Batchelor (1914–1991), English director, producer, writer, art director and animator
- Lee Batchelor (1865–1911), Australian politician
- Leon Dexter Batchelor (1884–1958), American professor of horticulture and director of the University of California Citrus Experiment Station
- Peter Batchelor (born 1950), Australian politician
- Stephen Batchelor (agnostic) (born 1953), British writer and teacher
- Stephen Batchelor (field hockey) (born 1961), British field hockey player and Olympic gold medalist
- Todd A. Batchelor (born 1970), American businessman and politician
Usage examples of "batchelor".
Lord Gerard, the Earl of Hardwicke, Viscount Royston, Sam Batchelor, and Tyrwhitt Wilson.
My expenses now greatly exceeded not only my former income, but those additions which I extorted from my poor generous father, on pretences of sums being necessary for preparing for my approaching degree of batchelor of arts.
But this knowledge only added up to the questionable composite of an equestrian batchelor sailor for a former owner, and was not much help.
One of them, sitting alone, was Ike Batchelor, a lush who had once been an advertising copy writer and who now got his drinking money peddling numbers tickets.