matchmaker
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4.7
- noun
- /ˈmæʧˌmeɪkər/
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celestino
- Sometimes, after being linked up by a matchmaker, a man and woman exchanged photos and corresponded.
I remember Matchmaker Matchmaker and how the three daughters found their matches.
- I remember Matchmaker Matchmaker and how the three daughters found their matches.
- She is the millionaire matchmaker CK and I actually we got we got dinner with her the other night.
- If you're a bad matchmaker, it's you can't hide.
- Do you know matchmakers matchmaker matchmaker make me a match smashes.
Examples
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This is the perfect end for my sad career as a matchmaker, a role I gladly relinquish by being instead so happily matched myself.
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The Captain's a frustrated matchmaker.
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If you had to play matchmaker, which two of your friends would you match?
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We must make your feet perfect so the matchmaker can find you a good husband.
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- The matchmaker brought me here.
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The village would use a matchmaker or elders to pair young people.
Blog text (34) -
She's always been a matchmaker.
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She's a matchmaker and she's very good at her job.
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Ever the matchmaker, her father had insisted that Theo stay at Michelle's place.
Fiction book (2001) -
After years of helping couples find love, she became known as the village matchmaker.
Synonyms
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5.8
A person who helps two people meet and get married, usually for money
A person who arranges marriages for other people
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Morphology
Etymology
Matchmaker is made of match and maker, where match means a 'pair' or 'partner' and maker means 'one who makes'. So a matchmaker is a person who brings two people together, often to marry.