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spinster 音标拼音: [sp'ɪnstɚ] n. 未婚女人,老处女 未婚女人,老处女 spinster n 1: an elderly unmarried woman [ synonym: { spinster}, { old maid}] 2: someone who spins ( who twists fibers into threads) [ synonym: { spinner}, { spinster}, { thread maker}] Spinster \ Spin" ster\, n. [ Spin - ster.] 1. A woman who spins, or whose occupation is to spin. [ 1913 Webster] She spake to spinster to spin it out. -- Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster] The spinsters and the knitters in the sun. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A man who spins. [ Obs.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Law) An unmarried or single woman; -- used in legal proceedings as a title, or addition to the surname. [ 1913 Webster] If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster, she may abate the writ. -- Coke. [ 1913 Webster] 4. A woman of evil life and character; -- so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] 23 Moby Thesaurus words for " spinster": bachelor girl, feme sole, jenny, lone woman, maid, maiden, maiden lady, mule, old maid, silkworm, single girl, spider, spinner, spinning frame, spinning jenny, spinstress, tabby, throstle, vestal, vestal virgin, virgin, ,
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