soulmate

See also: soul mate

English

Alternative forms

• soul mate

Etymology

soul +‎ mate. First attested as soul-mate in a 1822 letter by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Not in common usage before the 1980s.

Noun

soulmate (plural soulmates)

1. 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'

Translations

Someone with whom one has a special connection

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 靈魂伴侶, 灵魂伴侣 (línghúnbànlǚ)

• Czech: spřízněná duše f
• Dutch: soulmate (nl) m, zielsverwant (nl) m, geestverwant (nl) m
• Esperanto: intimulo, intimulino
• Finnish: henkiystävä (fi)
• French: âme sœur (fr) f
• German: Seelenverwandter m, Seelenverwandte f
• Greek: αδελφή ψυχή f (adelfí psychí)
• Hungarian: lelki társ
• Irish: anamchara m
• Italian: anima gemella (it)
• Japanese: 心の友 (こころのとも, kokoro-no tomo), ソウルメイト (sourumeito), 親友 (ja) (しんゆう, shin'yū)
• Maori: kare-ā-roto

• Polish: bratnia dusza (pl)
• Portuguese: alma gémea (pt) f (Portugal), alma gêmea (pt) f (Brazil)
• Russian: задуше́вный друг m (zadušévnyj drug), задуше́вная подру́га f (zadušévnaja podrúga), единомы́шленник (ru) m (jedinomýšlennik) (sympathizer); (of lovers:) друг се́рдца m (drug sérdca), подру́га се́рдца f (podrúga sérdca), ро́дственная душа́ f (ródstvennaja dušá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: srodna duša n

• Spanish: alma gemela f
• Swedish: själsfrände (sv) c
• Telugu: ఆత్మీయుడు (te) (ātmīyuḍu)
• Thai: เนื้อคู่ (th) (nʉ́ʉa-kûu)
• Turkish: ruhsal eş
• Vietnamese: bạn tri âm, tri kỉ, bạn tri kỉ

Further reading

• soulmate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “soulmate” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• luteomas, talmouse

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English soulmate.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: soul‧mate

Noun

soulmate m (plural soulmates, diminutive soulmateje n)

1. soulmate