A holder of a senior degree from a university or other academic institution, the degree being originally of a status which conveyed authority to…

One who has taken the first or lowest degree at a university, who is not yet a master of the Arts. (In this use, a woman may now be Bachelor of Arts…

A person who holds the highest degree awarded by a university faculty, graduate school, or other approved academic institution. Now usually: the…

= master, n.1 (esp. in senses 11 13); also used as a title preceding a name or other designation.

Used (as a rendering of Latin dominus), with the surname of the person, to designate a Bachelor of Arts in some Universities. Obsolete.

As a graphic abbreviation, chiefly preceding a name: = doctor, n.

A person who has received, or is receiving, a doctoral degree; the holder of a doctorate, a doctor (doctor, n. 4a).

= bachelor, n. (Academic).

= bachelor, n. (By Longfellow used for the sake of metre, perhaps with reference to laureate.)

esp. (= medieval Latin baccalaureus formatus), a bachelor who has performed the whole of his ‘forma’: see form, n. 11c.

a B.A. of standing between senior and junior, i.e. in his or her second year (in later use U.S.).

The degree of Bachelor of Music; a person holding this degree. Also used as a title placed after a person's name. Cf. Mus. Bac., n.

Doctor of Philosophy; Doctorate of Philosophy.

One who holds a diploma.

U.S. In certain American universities: the title of a degree conferred on a woman (the female counterpart of Bachelor). Now historical.

= Mus.B., n.

A person who is undertaking or has undertaken a period of study or research subsequent to obtaining a doctor's degree.

= postdoctoral, n.

Bachelor of Arts.

Bachelor of Law, also (French) Bachelier-ès-lettres.