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"Fiddler on the Roof" character
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matchmaker
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Word definitions for matchmaker in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Matchmaker \Match"mak`er\, n. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. One who tries to bring about marriages.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Besides being a judge, Soo-Il was also a talented matchmaker . ▪ Once a deal was struck between matchmaker and the parents, the girl had to stay at home until her marriage. ▪ Ours, after all, was not a marriage arranged by a ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also match-maker , "marriage-broker," 1630s, from match (n.2) + maker . Related: Match-making .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 someone who finds suitable marriage partners 2 (context by extension English) someone who arranges professional boxing matches
Usage examples of matchmaker.
Emily Carlisle, an arachnologist with the University of Arizona, how Carlisle plays matchmaker between Cody and Hardin, is wonderful, unfortunately, it takes up all too few pages of the book.
Lucy, however, was reluctant to consider a second marriage after the romantic happiness of her first, and Dolley, though an inveterate matchmaker, did not urge her.
Varvara heard about Lipa from the matchmakers, and she drove over to Torguevo.
You signed off on them even though many professional matchmakers would have hesitated because of the old thinking on the matching of unusual talents and prisms.
Enzymes, the matchmakers of life, helped chemical reactions to go forward at body temperature and atmospheric pressure.
One study showed that over thirty percent of Martian couples met their partners during their public-service time, so if nothing else it works as mixer and matchmaker.