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Matchmaker   /mˈætʃmˌeɪkər/   Listen
noun
Matchmaker  n.  
1.
One who makes matches for burning or kinding.
2.
One who tries to bring about marriages.





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"Matchmaker" Quotes from Famous Books



... Master (of profession) majstro. Mr. sinjoro. Masterpiece cxefverko. Mastic mastiko. Masticate macxi. Mastication macxado. Mastiff korthundo. Mat mato. Match alumeto, egaligi. Match-box alumetujo. Match kompari, egaligi. Matchless nekomparebla. Matchmaker alumetisto. Match (marriage) svatisto. Mate sxipoficiro. Mate kunulo. Material (cloth) sxtofo. Material materialo. Materialism materialismo. Materialist materialisto. Maternal patrina. Maternity patrineco. ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes
... turned matchmaker in her old age, and day and night she planned how to bring about the match between Morris and Katy. That they were made for each other she had no doubt. From something which Helen inadvertantly let fall she had guessed that Morris wanted Katy prior to her marriage with Wilford. ...
— Family Pride - Or, Purified by Suffering • Mary J. Holmes
... that delightfully faint flavour which is so entirely attractive. Miss LILLAH MACARTHY, as Maude Fulton, a well-preserved bachelor in the most bizarre modern mode, also a dexterous liar and officious matchmaker, played with her head in her most accomplished manner and gave full value in the general scheme to a character which the author made a person when he might have been content with a peg. Mr. DION BOUCICAULT'S physician was as bland a humbug as ever ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916 • Various
... whatever she will sell me," says he, with a blink. Whereupon the matchmaker made no more music. The scent was too ...
— Little Novels of Italy • Maurice Henry Hewlett
... said, why did she say it? If it is true, then—then why—what is the cause of the quarrel between them? Will they make it up? He does not look like a man who could treat a woman badly. Oh dear!" Helen sighed, for she had her own plans. Like every good woman, she was a born matchmaker at heart. She had a deep and sincere affection for John Everard. She had decided long ago that she must find Johnny a good wife, and here had been the very thing, only there was ...
— The Imaginary Marriage • Henry St. John Cooper


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