spinster
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Is spinster a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (sometimes derogatory) A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.Examples: "If […] a woman be named spinster, she may abate […]the same [writ]."Synonyms: old maidderogatorysometimes
2. (obsolete) Someone whose occupation was spinning thread.Examples: "The spinsters and the knitters in the sun."obsolete
3. (obsolete) A woman of evil life and character; so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.obsolete
4. (rare, dialectal) A spider; an insect (such as a silkworm) which spins thread.dialectalrare
Definition source: Wiktionary