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bach¹

  • /bæt͡ʃ/
  • /bɛtʃ/ New Zealand

Sounds like batch · Rhymes with -ætʃ

Where it comes from

Abbreviation of bachelor (or, in later senses, of bachelor pad).

noun baches

  1. US, archaic, slang A bachelor.
  2. New Zealand A small hut, especially for a man living alone.
  3. New Zealand Now specifically, a holiday home, typically a small, simple house of one or two rooms on the beach. 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.

    Similar: crib

verb baches · baching · bached

  1. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, archaic To live as a bachelor; (chiefly of a man) to live without women, and do one's own cooking, housekeeping etc. I hurried home to the tent—I was batching with a carpenter.

bach²

  • /bæt͡ʃ/
  • /bɛtʃ/ New Zealand

Sounds like batch · Rhymes with -ætʃ

noun baches

  1. abbreviation, clipping, colloquial Clipping of bachelorette 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.

Bach³

  • /bɑːx/ UK
  • /bɑːk/ UK

Rhymes with -ɑːx, -ɑːk

Where it comes from

From German Bach. The surname was brought to the Anglo-Saxon world by immigrants from other Germanic countries. Doublet of Beach.

proper noun

  1. A surname from German.
  2. Johann Sebastian Bach, a German organist and composer.

Bach⁴

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Vietnamese Bạch. Doublet of Bai.

proper noun

  1. A surname from Vietnamese.

BACH⁵

Where it comes from

Borrowed from German BACH.

proper noun

  1. A motif consisting of the notes B flat, A, C, B natural.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: bachelor, karabakh, rita, peterson, busoni, gounod, jahrbuch, hut, shack, shanty, chalet, cottage, cabin, shelter, camp, weekender

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name German composer

EspañolBach
한국어바흐 Baheu
日本語バッハ Bahha
中文巴赫 Bāhè
हिन्दीबाख़ bāx
PortuguêsBach
FrançaisBach
DeutschBach
ΕλληνικάΜπαχ
РусскийБах Bax
العربيةبَاخ bāḵ
עבריתבאך

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@misc{bach_2026,
  title = {bach},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bach},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}