(old-fashioned, often disapproving) a woman who is not married, especially an older woman who is not likely to marry:
The sisters were to remain spinsters for the rest of their lives.
HELPNOTE This word should not now be used to mean simply a woman who is not married.
compareBACHELOR
spinsterhood noun [U]:
For most women, marriage used to bring a higher status than spinsterhood.
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