Dictionary

matchmake en · VERB

Etymology

From match + make, as a back-formation from matchmaking.

Meanings

1. (intransitive, transitive) To carry out matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage.
   • Not to brag, but I'm kind of responsible for matchmaking you and Irina. 2002: Alias (TV, episode 2.09)
   • Why then Foible’s a Bawd, an Errant, Rank, Match-making Bawd. 1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene xviii, page 49:
   • And pray remember, I am the last person in the world to match-make. 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:
   • We are a couple of old fools to be matchmaking so soon ... 1876, Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom:

Forms

Deriveds

matchmakee

Relateds

matchmaking · matchmaker

Translations (20)

uk сва́тати (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · fi parittaa (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · fi naittaa (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · vi làm mối (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · de verkuppeln (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · ru сосва́тать (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · pl swatać (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · vi làm mai (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · cu сватати (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · fi välittää naimakauppa (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · pl wyswatać (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · cmn 做媒 (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · es emparejar humanamente (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · cmn 保媒 (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · es emparejar a gente (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · ko 중매를 서다 (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · ko 중매하다 (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · be сва́таць (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · ru сва́тать (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage) · tg хостгорӣ кардан (to do matchmaking: to set up a date between two people or to arrange a marriage)