Dear Queenie,
My wife and I want you to settle an argument.
She says a bachelor is any unmarried man. I say a bachelor is a man who has never been married.
Queenie, what do you say?—Curious couple
Dear Couple,
I am not an authority on word definitions. However, my Oxford Dictionary says a bachelor is a man who has never been married. An unmarried man who has been married and divorced is a divorcee. An unmarried man who was married but whose wife died is a widower. ’Nuff said?
