soulmate

See also: soul mate

English

Alternative forms

• soul mate

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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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'

Hyponyms

• bashert

Translations

Someone with whom one has a special connection

• Bulgarian: сродна душа f (srodna duša)
• 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), sielunkumppani
• French: âme sœur (fr) f
• German: Seelenverwandter m, Seelenverwandte f
• Greek: αδελφή ψυχή (el) f (adelfí psychí)
• Hungarian: lelki társ (hu)
• Irish: anamchara m
• Italian: anima gemella (it)
• Japanese: 運命の人 (unmei no hito, literally “person of fate”), 赤い糸で結ばれた相手 (akai ito de musubareta aite, literally “partner bound by the red string (of fate)”)
• Korean: 천생연분 (ko) (cheonsaeng'yeonbun)
• Macedonian: сродна душа f (srodna duša)
• Maori: kare-ā-roto
• Polish: bratnia dusza (pl), pokrewna dusza f, przyjazna dusza f
• 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 (tr), ruh ikizi
• Ukrainian: друг (uk) m (druh), по́друга f (pódruha), двійни́к (uk) m (dvijnýk), дві́йка (uk) f (dvíjka)
• Vietnamese: bạn tri âm, tri kỉ, bạn tri kỉ

See also

• kindred spirit

Further reading

• soulmate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “soulmate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• luteomas, talmouse

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

Synonyms

• geestverwant
• zielsverwant