: the recipient of a bachelor's degree which usually signifies that the recipient has passed a certain number of courses in the humanities—abbreviation B.A., A.B.
became a Bachelor of Arts after only three years of university attendancerequires a year of Latin of the Bachelors of Arts
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: the degree making one a Bachelor of Arts—abbreviation B.A., A.B.
require a Bachelor of Arts of all high-school teachersget an A.B. in classicsget a B.A. in history