bach

Noun

bach (plural baches)

1. (US, archaic, slang) A bachelor.
2. (New Zealand) A small hut, especially for a man living alone.
3. (New Zealand) Now specifically, a holiday home, typically a small, simple house of one or two rooms on the beach.
   • She stops the car by an ochre-coloured bach at the end of the beachline, by the shelter of a massive thicket of African thorn.1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 163
   • Even before he began his chores he sunbathed naked against the east wall of the bach for half an hour.1984, Janet Frame, An Angel at my Table, Virago, published 2024, page 263

   Synonyms:

   crib

Verb

bach (third-person singular simple present baches, present participle baching, simple past and past participle bached)

1. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US, archaic) To live as a bachelor; (chiefly of a man) to live without women, and do one's own cooking, housekeeping etc.
   • I hurried home to the tent—I was batching with a carpenter.1900, Henry Lawson, Over the Sliprails

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Bach

UK/bɑːx/

Bach

1. A surname from German.
2. Johann Sebastian Bach, a German organist and composer.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Bach

Bach

1. A surname from Vietnamese.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: BACH

BACH

1. A motif consisting of the notes B flat, A, C, B natural.