bach

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verb

variants or less commonly batch
bached also batched; baching also batching; baches also batches

intransitive verb

: to live as a bachelor
often used with it

bach

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noun

New Zealand
: a small house or weekend cottage

Examples of bach in a Sentence

Noun maintains a bach in South Island's Fiordland
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Our bach boy Peter continues to have no real conversations with literally anyone, but does manage to (probably) sleep with two women and definitely piss off a third one. Hannah Rimm, refinery29.com, 25 Feb. 2020 For summer vacation, from Christmas to February, Kiwis tramp along a Great Walk, or tent near a stream, or drive a campervan from forest to forest, or rent a bach — a beach house — on the coast. Longreads, 18 Sep. 2019

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Word History

Etymology

Noun

short for bachelor entry 1

First Known Use

Verb

1865, in the meaning defined above

Noun

1925, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bach was in 1865

Dictionary Entries Near bach

Cite this Entry

“Bach.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bach. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

Biographical Definition

Bach 1 of 4

biographical name (1)

Carl Philipp Emanuel 1714–1788 son of Johann Sebastian Bach German composer

Bach

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biographical name (2)

Johann Christian 1735–1782 son of Johann Sebastian Bach German organist and composer

Bach

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biographical name (3)

Johann Sebastian 1685–1750 German organist and composer

Bach

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biographical name (4)

Wilhelm Friedemann 1710–1784 son of Johann Sebastian Bach German composer
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