bachelorette party

noun

: a party for a woman who is about to be married usually attended by women only

Arriving at a second bar where they planned to wind up the night, they found the upper floor occupied by his fiancee, at her own much-rowdier bachelorette party.

—Nicholas Kulish

Examples of bachelorette party in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Straight people — bachelorette parties in particular — began flooding gay bars to experience drag shows in person. —Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 3 June 2025

The city has banned beer bikes, limited noise in historic areas and cracked down on public drinking, pub crawls and rowdy bachelor and bachelorette parties. —Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes.com, 31 May 2025

Earlier this month, Sánchez celebrated her bachelorette party ahead of her wedding to Bezos. —Catherine Santino, People.com, 22 May 2025

First, there was her all-female Blue Origin flight in mid-April; then, her splashy bachelorette party in Paris. —Vogue, 19 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1943, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for bachelorette party

• arty
• carty
• hearty
• parti
• astarte
• mccarty
• nonparty
• counterparty
• multiparty