Word Finder - spinster

definition

(sometimes derogatory) A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.

synonyms

• old maid

definition

One who spins (puts a spin on) a political media story so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance; a spin doctor, spin merchant or spin master.

definition

Someone whose occupation was spinning thread.

definition

A woman of evil life and character; so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.

definition

A spider; an insect (such as a silkworm) which spins thread.

The old spinster is in a bad mood today.

For her to inherit the house, she must remain a spinster!

I fear she's going to end up a lonely spinster with only a cat by her side for company.

Cash heard of one ambitious property developer who approached an ' elderly spinster ' .

On the way she visits Southampton, where a septuagenarian spinster relative of her late husband lives - Aunt Margaret Albany.

For her to inherit the house, she must remain a spinster !

The thought of ending up an old spinster leaves my blood running cold.

She was described as Mary Preen, a spinster aged 20, the daughter of Richard Preen grocer, living at Leebotwood.

I fear she 's going to end up a lonely spinster with only a cat by her side for company.

Becky wins over the children, and the Crawley family 's rich spinster aunt Matilda (Eileen Atkins) as well.

Three spinster ladies lived in the house next door to us.

If she dies a spinster, the money goes to a cousin.

The other day the papers reported the will of a reclusive spinster.

For centuries this was the work of every woman, hence the term spinster for an unmarried girl.

Cash heard of one ambitious property developer who approached an ' elderly spinster '.

And the lady in question was an eighty year old spinster of the parish !

If it was n't for the fact I get married in a month I 'd happily be a spinster with cats.

Someone is needed to interview two spinster sisters in their nineties for a research project in Social History and Folklore.

The two elder sisters came to terms with their situation but the youngest one never did and became a dissatisfied spinster.

I mean, this is supposed to be you starting your lives together, not hauling around your poor spinster of a friend who's about to be abandoned.

And the fact that it was very comfortable, and that we were looked after extremely well by these two spinster aunts.

He lived with spinster sister, Mary Jane, who died in 1926.

His two spinster daughters later gave Sewell Park to the corporation of Norwich.

Never more than a nominal wife at most, the unfortunate Stella commonly passed for his mistress till the day of her death (in her will she writes herself spinster), bearing her doom with uncomplaining resignation, and consoled in some degree by unquestionable proofs of the permanence of his love, if his feeling for her deserves the name.

Heller's surprising ability to get into the mind of a middle-aged spinster also illustrates her strong talent for imaginative empathy.

The social reformer of the past is depicted as a dour spinster wielding an axe to break barrels of "Demon Rum."