"bachelor" and "single"

I haven't heard this interpretation.
Single is more "modern," perhaps.

I'm a bachelor. This applies to men, and is more current than the female version, a bachelorette. I surmise that political correctness has done away with the latter and that single is serving the purpose, as few single men I know call themselves 'bachelors'. Still, I would agree that if one did so, it would be out of either pride or disillusionment.

Along the same lines, can someone tell me if "I'm celibate" really simply means "I'm single" in other cultures?

Because in the U.S., it refers to whether or not you engage in sexual activity, not whether you are married. But I have heard that it has a different meaning in other places. (There was a little scene about that in the movie Under the Tuscan Sun.)

GG:

This is from an AmE source:
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cel·i·ba·cy

Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): -es
Etymology: Latin caelibatus celibacy + English -cy

1 : the state of not having a spouse : single life <celibacy can usually be tolerated as a state favorable to education -- New St

I want to know how it's really USED. In the U.S., if you say "I'm celibate" it means you abstain. How is it actually used elsewhere?

French:
célibataire : single, bachelor, bachelorette
célibat : abstinence, but also unmarried life
where each overlaps parts of the AmE definition I've posted above.

Grammar GeekIn the U.S., if you say "I'm celibate" it means you abstain.

Well, this is the "latest" interpretation, as Garner says in Modern American Usage, a result of the changes in the US churches and US attitudes vs ***.

Before that, he mentions, both were used in the US too, and one can see that in the dictionaries still. But you must be too