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Matchmaker   /mˈætʃmˌeɪkər/   Listen
Matchmaker

noun
1.
Someone who arranges (or tries to arrange) marriages for others.  Synonyms: marriage broker, matcher.






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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



Words linked to "Matchmaker" :   mediator, intermediator, go-between, intercessor, intermediary



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