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See also: soul mate
English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
soul + mate. First attested as soul-mate in a 1822 letter by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.[1][2] Not in common usage before the 1980s.[3]
Noun[edit]
soulmate (plural soulmates)
- Someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally or uniquely compatible or has a special, almost spiritual connection.
- 2012, Ulli Springett, Tara Springett, Soulmate Relationships: How to find, keep and understand your perfect partner, Hachette UK (→ISBN)
- Finding your wonderful soulmate is very similar to the process of sowing a seed and nurturing it into a beautiful blossoming plant.
- 2015, “Jungle”, in If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, performed by Drake:
- I'm all over the place, I can't sit in one place / I'm not ashamed at all / Still findin' myself, let alone a soulmate, I'm just sayin'
- 2012, Ulli Springett, Tara Springett, Soulmate Relationships: How to find, keep and understand your perfect partner, Hachette UK (→ISBN)
Translations[edit]
Someone with whom one has a special connection
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Further reading[edit]
soulmate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “soulmate” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.
References[edit]
- ^ “soulmate” in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary.
- ^ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836) , “Letter to a Young Lady”, in Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge, E. Moxon, page 89:
- To be happy in Marriage Life, […] , in order not to be miserable, you must have a Soul-mate as well as a House or a Yoke-mate; […]
- ^ (soul mate + soulmate) at Google Ngram Viewer
Anagrams[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from English soulmate.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: soul‧mate
Noun[edit]
soulmate m (plural soulmates, diminutive soulmateje n)