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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
matchmaker
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 matchmaker or by our parents.
▪ She made the marriage, without benefit of matchmakers, and he seemed happy enough to go along with it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Matchmaker

Matchmaker \Match"mak`er\, n.

  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding.

  2. One who tries to bring about marriages.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
matchmaker

also match-maker, "marriage-broker," 1630s, from match (n.2) + maker. Related: Match-making.

Wiktionary
matchmaker

n. 1 someone who finds suitable marriage partners 2 (context by extension English) someone who arranges professional boxing matches

WordNet
matchmaker

n. someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others [syn: matcher, marriage broker]

Wikipedia
Matchmaker

A matchmaker is a person who engages in matchmaking, sometimes as a profession.

Matchmaker or The Matchmaker may refer to:

  • Matchmaker (game show), a late-80's dating show
  • Matchmaker (TV series), a Canadian reality dating television series
  • "Matchmaker" (How I Met Your Mother), a 2005 episode of the situation comedy How I Met Your Mother
  • Matchmaker, a play by John B. Keane
  • “" Matchmaker, Matchmaker"”, a 1964 song from the musical Fiddler on the Roof
  • The Matchmaker, a 1955 play by Thornton Wilder
  • The Matchmaker (1958 film), a 1958 film starring Shirley Booth
  • "The Matchmaker" (Frasier), a 1994 episode of the situation comedy Frasier
  • The Matchmaker (1997 film), a 1997 film starring Janeane Garofalo
  • The Matchmaker (2010 film), a 2010 Israeli film
Matchmaker (game show)

Matchmaker was a dating show that aired in syndication from September 14, 1987 to September 1988. It was hosted by Dave Hull. Jimmie Walker also hosted for one week of shows. The executive producer and occasional announcer was Bill Armstrong, who replaced original announcer Lou Hunt. Syndication was arranged by Four Star International, in association with Kleinman, Pollard, Hull Productions, and Orbis Communications.

Matchmaker (How I Met Your Mother)

"Matchmaker" is the seventh episode in the first season of the television series How I Met Your Mother. It originally aired on November 7, 2005. The episode was written by Sam Johnson & Chris Marcil and directed by Pamela Fryman.

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.