bach
/bæt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Now specifically, a holiday home, typically a small, simple house of one or two rooms on the beach.
New Zealand usage
verb
To live as a bachelor; (chiefly of a man) to live without women, and do one's own cooking, housekeeping etc.
Australian usage; Canadian usage; New Zealand usage; American usage; Archaic
name
A surname from Vietnamese.
Example Sentences
- "She stops the car by an ochre-coloured bach at the end of the beachline, by the shelter of a massive thicket of African thorn."
- "Even before he began his chores he sunbathed naked against the east wall of the bach for half an hour."
- "From 1931 until his death in 1982, Sargeson lived a monastic life in a bach at Takapuna, writing in the mornings and tending his garden and entertaining friends in the latter part of the day."
- "I hurried home to the tent—I was batching with a carpenter."
- "When I ask people how spending money makes them feel, so many of them respond, "Guilty." ¶ They'll give an example of how a rough day at the office led to buying a pair of shoes online or how they got a little carried away at their friend's bach party in Vegas."
- "Bachelorette party captions for Instagram […] Babes, baches, bikinis, and boats."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Bach, Bạch
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /bɑːx/
Usage
- American usage
- Archaic
- Slang
- New Zealand usage
- Australian usage
- Canadian usage
- Colloquial
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.