love match
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- noun
- /lʌv mætʃ/
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matrimonio por amor
- When Bathurst first told me about it, I thought it was an extraordinary love match.
This season it's Johnny who plays Anthony Bridgeton trying to find his love match.
- This season it's Johnny who plays Anthony Bridgeton trying to find his love match.
Examples
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I think it’s completely likely that Don and Betts were married when he was still a fur salesman... it’s just another reason for Gene and the rest of the family to be unhappy about Betty marrying Don, but it was an absolute love match.
Blog text (25) -
Apparently, arranged marriages work out as well as love matches.
Blog text (24) -
I heard it was a love match.
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It's a real love match.
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"Her marriage was not a love match, but a happy one.
Fiction book (1992) -
But everyone knew that theirs was no love match.
Fiction book (2001) -
It is a love match, you see.
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When they wed, it was a love match.
Fiction book (1993) -
It seems to have been a love match, at least initially, and Cabarrus bore her husband three children.
Academic text (2011) -
For Sabawoon and Mashal Kakar, their marriage was a love match from the start.
Synonyms
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A close relationship between two people who love each other
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A close joining of two things that work well together
How Loving
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a marriage or romantic relationship based on mutual love' is directly compositional from 'love' (intense affection) + 'match' (a suitable partner), so a learner who knows both words can infer a 'match characterized by love'. This follows common English compounding/NP patterns and has clear cross‑linguistic parallels, making it readily understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
The noun love match comes from the simple picture of two people who 'match', meaning they fit together because of love rather than family plans. That's why a love match means a marriage or romantic relationship based on 'love for each other', not on an 'arranged' choice.