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Meanings of spinster in английском

русский
бобылиха
португальский
solteirona
каталонский
fadrina vella
испанский
sotlerona
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Unmarried woman, often older.

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        бобылиха
        каталонский
        filater

        Someone who spins (who twists fibers into threads)

              filater
              Synonyms
              Examples for "spinner"
              Examples for "spinner"
              1
              Three days ago the lofty off-spinner was relaxing peacefully back at home.
              The Guardian
              2
              He sees himself as a batter number one and a spinner second.
              The Guardian
              3
              Base personnel needed resistance exercises and their regular time in the spinner.
              Zero Point
              4
              The importance of fixed income as a money-spinner could yet wane further.
              Reuters
              5
              Matthews went wicket-less from two overs of off-spinner which cost 11 runs.
              Jamaica Observer
              1
              There are numbers of old Belgian thread -makers who, like spiders, have passed the best part of their lives spinning in cellars.
              International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science ...

              Someone who gives a positive interpretation to events.

                    Usage of spinster in английском
                    1
                    You know, that book did Austen herself no good-died a spinster.
                    Austenland
                    2
                    Summoning Esme, frail spinster that she was, was out of the question.
                    Secrets of a Perfect Night
                    3
                    The spinster of the basement flat was about to take her place.
                    The Lady of the Basement Flat
                    4
                    Time is issued to spinster ladies of wealth in long white ribbons.
                    Jacob's Room
                    5
                    She might remain a spinster: she hated the mere name of spinster.
                    The Philosopher's Joke
                    6
                    The heart of a spinster of thirty-six is a well of tolerance.
                    Letters of Two Brides
                    7
                    It melted the old spinster, and she fell to kissing her, saying:
                    Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
                    8
                    He did as he pleased and I didn't end up a spinster.
                    Those who save us
                    9
                    What the spinster would do toward making broth Janice did not know.
                    Janice Day, the Young Homemaker
                    10
                    The gaunt spinster was cutting some bread-and-butter now with a savage air.
                    Winding Paths
                    11
                    There is no subject which presents more difficulties to the inquiring spinster.
                    The Spinster Book
                    12
                    He began to tell them what had brought the ancient spinster there.
                    A Hungarian Nabob
                    13
                    Women spun for their own households, and the term spinster was introduced.
                    Comic History of England
                    14
                    On Wednesday a pair of spinster ladies came to look at it.
                    Hiram the Young Farmer
                    15
                    The spinster complied, and stood erect and stiff, with her arms folded.
                    A Woman-Hater
                    16
                    Second, the only support of an aged or infirm spinster or bachelor.
                    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
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                    Translations for spinster
                    португальский
                    solteironasolteira
                    Spinster through the time
                    Spinster across language varieties
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