matchmaking
See also: match-making
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom match + making. By surface analysis, matchmake + -ing.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editmatchmaking (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.
- (business) A service aiming to bring together sellers and buyers or potential partners.
- 1971, Eunice L. Watson, 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.
- (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.
Related terms
editTranslations
editattempt to make two people romantically interested in each other
|
business: Service aiming to bring together sellers and buyers or potential partners
video games: act or process of locating suitable players
Verb
editmatchmaking
- present participle and gerund of matchmake
Categories:
- English compound terms
- English terms suffixed with -ing
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Business
- en:Video games
- English non-lemma forms
- English verb forms