name
Meaning 1
A surname from German.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
bach
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /bɑːx/
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Received-Pronunciation: /bɑːk/
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rhymes with -ɑːx
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rhymes with -ɑːk
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/bæt͡ʃ/
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New-Zealand: /bɛtʃ/
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rhymes with -ætʃ
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homophone: batch
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CMU ARPABET: B AA1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
Johann Sebastian Bach, a German organist and composer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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name
Meaning 3
A surname from Vietnamese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 4
A motif consisting of the notes B flat, A, C, B natural.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
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noun
Meaning 5
A bachelor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, archaic, slang
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noun
Meaning 6
A small hut, especially for a man living alone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand
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noun
Meaning 7
Now specifically, a holiday home, typically a small, simple house of one or two rooms on the beach.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-Zealand
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Synonyms: crib
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
Clipping of bachelorette.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, colloquial
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verb
Meaning 9
To live as a bachelor; (chiefly of a man) to live without women, and do one's own cooking, housekeeping etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, US, archaic
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noun
Meaning 10
the music of Bach
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he played Bach on the organ
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Synonyms: none provided
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Broader terms: music
noun
Meaning 11
German baroque organist and contrapuntist; composed mostly keyboard music; one of the greatest creators of western music (1685-1750)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Johann Sebastian Bach
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: composer, organist
verb
Meaning 12
lead a bachelor's existence
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bachelor
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: live
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bheg-der. Proto-Germanic *bakiz Proto-West Germanic *baki Old High German bah Middle High German bach German Bachbor. English Bach From German Bach. The surname was brought to the Anglo-Saxon world by immigrants from other Germanic countries. Doublet of Beach.
Borrowed from Vietnamese Bạch. Doublet of Bai.
Borrowed from German BACH.
Abbreviation of bachelor (or, in later senses, of bachelor pad).
Across languages
Translations
31 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: بَاخ (bāḵ) — German composer
- Armenian: Բախ (Bax) — German composer
- Azerbaijani: Bax — German composer
- Belarusian: Бах (Bax) — German composer
- Bulgarian: Бах — German composer
- Chinese Mandarin: 巴赫 (Bāhè) — German composer
- Dutch: Bach — German composer
- Esperanto: Baĥo — German composer
- Finnish: Bach — German composer
- French: Bach — German composer
- Georgian: ბახი (baxi) — German composer
- German: Bach — German composer
- Greek: Μπαχ — German composer
- Hebrew: באך — German composer
- Hindi: बाख़ (bāx) — German composer
- Hungarian: Bach — German composer
- Japanese: バッハ (Bahha) — German composer
- Korean: 바흐 (Baheu) — German composer
- Latvian: Bahs — German composer
- Macedonian: Бах — German composer
- Marathi: बाख (bākh) — German composer
- Persian: باخ (bâx) — German composer
- Portuguese: Bach — German composer
- Russian: Бах (Bax) — German composer
- Spanish: Bach — German composer
- Swedish: Bach — German composer
- Tamil: பாக் (pāk) — German composer
- Thai: บาค (bàak) — German composer
- Ukrainian: Бах (Bax) — German composer
- Urdu: باخ (bāx) — German composer
- Māori: kōpuha — small house