In which age does a single woman become "old spinster"?

Answer 1

Ireland Irish Eyes is right. It's not by age. When I got married in Jamaica, my wife's occupation was written as spinster. It's what a single woman is refered to in much of the world.

Answer 2

well the saying is old spinster, so use it how you like, i mean if you look old they could say your a old spinster, if your old but look young you could get away with it, but if you are old anyway you could become a old spinster, i would say the age would be 50, 20s are to young 30 is half way 40 lifes begining for you and 50 well you get it, so i would say 50 for sure i have always done it that way, good luck

Answer 3

In legal definitions, all women who has never married is defined as "spinster".


1362, "female spinner of thread," from M.E. spinnen (see spin) + -stere, feminine suffix. Spinning commonly done by unmarried women, hence the word came to denote "an unmarried woman" in legal documents from 1600s to early 1900s, and by 1719 was being used generically for "woman still unmarried and beyond the usual age for it."

These statistics/studies are over 50 yrs old.
- Usual age of marriage for women (23 to 27) corresponding with fertility age
By age 30, 7% of couples were infertile
By age 35, 11% of couples were infertile
By age 40, 33% of couples were infertile
At age 45, 87% of couples were infertile

Reference: Tietze C





http://www.advancedfertility.com/age.htm

Answer 4

Depends on how old-looking they are. If they smoke, they'll look older, and they'll become a "spinster" earlier. But I'd say that the age is about 60.

Answer 5

there isnt a fixed age.
when i got married in 1975, my wife to be got the right hump when she was described as 'spinster' on the marriage licence since she was only 17.
it's always been used as a derisory term implying that a woman was either too nutty or too minging to bag a husband.

Answer 6

50

Answer 7

40

Answer 8

60

Answer 9

Never.....there are women today who don't care about getting married....and don't want to get married.

A "spinster" was a woman who wanted to get married and didn't.

That term went out in the 60's.

Answer 10

65