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matchmaking (countable and uncountable, plural matchmakings)
- An attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other, especially an attempt to set up a date between people or to arrange a marriage.
- 1851: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
- The marriage was highly approved of by Mrs. Shelby, who, with a little womanly complacency in match-making, felt pleased to unite her handsome favorite with one of her own class who seemed in every way suited to her;
- 2001: The Gilmore Girls (TV, episode 1.18)
- Patty, your timing is excellent. There's Claude over there. Want me to do some matchmaking?
- 1815: Jane Austen, Emma
- I planned the match from that hour; and when such success has blessed me in this instance, dear papa, you cannot think that I shall leave off match-making.
- 1851: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
- (business) A service aiming to bring together sellers and buyers or potential partners.
- 1971: Eunice L. Watson and Arthur Cope Emlem, Matchmaking in Neighborhood Day Care: A Descriptive Study of the Day Care Neighbor Service [1]
- ... there was evidence that they did provide information for day care matchmaking to the potential users and givers of care.
- 1971: Eunice L. Watson and Arthur Cope Emlem, Matchmaking in Neighborhood Day Care: A Descriptive Study of the Day Care Neighbor Service [1]
- (video games) The act or process of locating suitable players to take part in a multiplayer game session.
- The manufacture of matches for kindling or burning.
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attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other
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business: Service aiming to bring together sellers and buyers or potential partners
video games: act or process of locating suitable players
Verb[edit]
matchmaking