BACHELOR OF ARTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bachelor of Arts mean? 

• BACHELOR OF ARTS (noun)
  The noun BACHELOR OF ARTS has 1 sense:

1. a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences

  Familiarity information: BACHELOR OF ARTS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACHELOR OF ARTS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A bachelor's degree in arts and sciences

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

AB; Artium Baccalaurens; BA; Bachelor of Arts

Hypernyms ("Bachelor of Arts" is a kind of...):

baccalaureate; bachelor's degree (an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies)

 Context examples 

"Yes, you are a Bachelor of Arts," he said meditatively; "and you ought to know."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Bachelor of Arts!—when he thought of her degree, it seemed she fled beyond him faster than he could pursue.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She was a bachelor of arts, but he had gone beyond her limitations.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She was a bachelor of arts.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Her child-daughter, who was a bachelor of arts, was gone; but in her place was a woman-daughter.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)