0 a woman who is not married, especially a woman who is no longer young and seems unlikely ever to marry
1 a woman who is not married, esp. a woman who is no longer young and seems unlikely ever to marry
Several contributors stress the close relationship between demographic factors and the position and representation of spinsters.
The view that bachelors and spinsters are in some sense deviant or residual groups appears to have weakened.
Although she is not exactly a spinster, there is definitely something abstemious to her.
There was one sale to a local spinster.
These are single women, possessing an economic power unique to their status as spinsters.
Judging by the wills of spinsters and widows, women had intense feelings about their possessions.
British politicians seem to have been less troubled by the prospect of an electorate which included spinsters and widows.
For example in 1985, 13% of spinsters married a divorced man as compared with 6% in 1971 and 4% in 1961.
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