Get to know Spinster better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like spinner or maker.
Spinster meaning
- A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.
- 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 spinmeister.
- Someone whose occupation was spinning thread.
Spinster vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Spinster
- The main meaning on this page is: A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions. | 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 spinmeister. | Someone whose occupation was spinning thread.
- Useful related words include: old maid, unmarried woman, spinner, thread maker.
- Possible Dutch translations are: oude vrijster, ongehuwde vrouw.
- In the example corpus, spinster often appears in combinations such as: spinster who, of spinster, merry spinster.
Context around Spinster
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 13 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Spinster
- In this selection, "spinster" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, merry, word, juddmonte, watch, cousins and died stand out and add context to how "spinster" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1796 for spinster cousins mary and 2014 juddmonte spinster g1. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "spinster" sits close to words such as abdulai, abhinandan and abhor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with spinster
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The heartbroken spinster story still sells! (6 words)
Victoria Godfrey, a spinster, died on February 29, 2020, in Arundel, West Sussex. (13 words)
The Merry Spinster is one of the most anticipated books of the spring. (13 words)
I truly loved Daniel M. Lavery’s collection “The Merry Spinster,” in which he does marvelous things with fairy tales, and while I didn’t want to take the same approach, that book gave me a kind of doorway into approaching the source material. (44 words)
It destabilizes the widely held perception that she was a reclusive spinster by showcasing her “hidden persona”: a lively and comedic personality who was romantically involved with her best friend/sister-in law. (33 words)
Her three albums, Hope, Mbira, Love and Chocolate and The Exorcism of A Spinster (watch the word spinster here, it evokes a deep meaning) seem to have failed to do the trick. (32 words)
The heartbroken spinster story still sells! (6 words)
Example sentences (20)
Her three albums, Hope, Mbira, Love and Chocolate and The Exorcism of A Spinster (watch the word spinster here, it evokes a deep meaning) seem to have failed to do the trick.
I truly loved Daniel M. Lavery’s collection “The Merry Spinster,” in which he does marvelous things with fairy tales, and while I didn’t want to take the same approach, that book gave me a kind of doorway into approaching the source material.
I was intrigued to see the 16-sided building which featured a shell gallery and offered beautiful sea views, built in 1796 for spinster cousins Mary and Jane Parminter.
Trainer Saeed bin Suroor has not started a horse at Keeneland since Shuruq finished sixth in the 2014 Juddmonte Spinster (G1).
Victoria Godfrey, a spinster, died on February 29, 2020, in Arundel, West Sussex.
Also, this is where Meghan Markle threw her lavish three-day spinster outing with her friends before her wedding with Prince Harry in 2018.
Her ambitions require more capital than she has, so she sets her eyes on Ann Walker (), a lonely and psychologically frail young spinster who’s the sole inheritor of a sizable fortune.
Mbira princess Hope Masike on Friday put on a visual and aural spectacle as she launched her third album titled The Exorcism of a Spinster at Reps Theatre in Harare.
She has been featured in countless newspaper articles, often referred to as India’s “Miss Marple” or “Nancy Drew”, Agatha Christie’s fictional spinster sleuth and the ever-evolving US amateur detective.
The heartbroken spinster story still sells!
To tell a spinster or a bachelor who to and who to not marry is wrong.
After overhearing Mark call her a “verbally incompetent spinster,” Bridget decides to turn her life around by starting a diary documenting her process to stop smoking, become healthy and find love.
If only one of the stories, starring Zoe Kazan as a spinster on the Oregon Trail, leaves a truly strong impression, there are no real duds either.
It destabilizes the widely held perception that she was a reclusive spinster by showcasing her “hidden persona”: a lively and comedic personality who was romantically involved with her best friend/sister-in law.
The Merry Spinster is one of the most anticipated books of the spring.
Berg notes that it worked as a hybrid of their earlier romantic-comedy successes and Hepburn's spinster persona, Berg (2004) p. 206. but it performed poorly at the box-office.
Echoing her African Queen character, Hepburn again played a deeply religious spinster who teams up with a masculine loner to avenge a family member's death.
Jane Hudson is one of the popular "spinster" roles Hepburn played in the 1950s.
Miss Bates is a friendly, garrulous spinster whose mother, Mrs Bates, is a friend of Mr Woodhouse.
People have always outed the mailman and the milkman and the spinster who lives down the block.
Common combinations with spinster
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- spinster who 3×
- of spinster 2×
- merry spinster 2×