Definition of Spinster

a woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions

Examples of Spinster in a sentence

They call Mrs. Smith on Padding Lane an old spinster, but she never wanted to be married and settled down.  🔊

Father worried I was doomed to live the life of a spinster as my fifteenth birthday approached and no one had asked for my hand in marriage.  🔊

You cannot call Jane a spinster because she's still married to her high school sweetheart.  🔊

There is not much sadder in this world than a spinster who has her wedding dress hanging in the closet, taking it out on occasion to wear as she sits alone in the dark with a bottle of wine.  🔊

Glenn saved Candace from ending up a spinster when he asked her brother for her hand when she was thirty-three years of age.  🔊

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