spinster
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8.6
- noun
- /ˈspɪn.stɚ/
- Slur
- In 1890, she was a spinster who had just seen her fortieth birthday.
- widows and spinsters
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Watch on YouTubeAnd we find this old bachelor and his kind of spinster sister.
- And we find this old bachelor and his kind of spinster sister.
- Like there's something, there's something so charming and endearing about Cary Grant discovering that his two spinster aunts are are murdering tenants.
Examples
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As the town spinster, I had no picture of my old age.
Fiction book (2000) -
We can grow old and become spinsters together.
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She'd be a spinster for the rest of her life.
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Who would harm a kindly old spinster like me?
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You can't spend the rest of your life as a spinster, after all.
Fiction book (1999) -
I'm the town spinster, and I've gotten two wedding proposals in the past six months.
Fiction book (2000) -
Amelia was a wealthy spinster, allied with a New York City police inspector.
Fiction book (2001) -
Although a "stately" spinster, Amelia was one by choice, having rejected two suitors.
Fiction book (2001) -
She's a lonely spinster.
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In her small town, she was often viewed as an old spinster who never married.
Synonyms
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8.9
An older woman who has never married, often used as an insult
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1.0
A woman who is not married
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Etymology
The word spinster comes from the old job word spin meaning 'to twist thread' plus the ending -ster meaning 'a person who does something'. A spinster was first a woman who spun thread, and over time the word came to mean an unmarried woman, often one older than the usual marrying age.