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matchmaker

/mach-mey-ker/US // ˈmætʃˌmeɪ kər //UK // (ˈmætʃˌmeɪkə) //

媒人,媒妁之言,妁之言,媒婆

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who arranges or tries to arrange marriages by introducing possible mates.
    • : a person who arranges matches for athletic contests, especially prizefights and wrestling matches.
    • : any person, organization, etc., that brings two parties together, as to effect a sale or other transaction: an agent serving as a matchmaker between buyers and sellers.

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Examples

  • Kathleen Marchsteiner, who has been a volunteer adoption coordinator for City Dogs Rescue & City Kitties in Washingtonfor two years, is one of many such matchmakers.

  • As he recovered, he decided to take dating more seriously, even hiring a matchmaker.

  • Martin Luther had just helped 12 nuns escape their Catholic cloister, even playing matchmaker by setting them up with eligible bachelors.

  • We’ll be welcoming the other investors, playing matchmaker and introducing them to each other as well as the sponsors.

  • She refers to it as getting to play a mathematical matchmaker in her own version of The Bachelor.

  • And for K. Aleisha Fetters, seeing shows like Millionaire Matchmaker initially made her hesitant.

  • The minister of Justice is supposed to be the watchdog of the law, not a matchmaker for the yakuza.

  • Every matchmaker contacted admitted to female, and male, clients bringing up the sexually explicit S&M-themed novel.

  • It was as if he was echoing the advice given to many-a-young-bride by the village matchmaker.

  • Small things, such as Taylor Swift or watching Millionaire Matchmaker, or Amy Grant.

  • The humiliated matchmaker sent Josiah up to the grocery store on an errand, and then dragged his friend inside and shut the door.

  • "It is a very good project, but I am no matchmaker," said the old lady.

  • At the end of three months, during which Margery's dbut had come and gone, the wistful matchmaker was frankly in despair.

  • The old pastor's red face glowed redder, yet with pleasurable anticipation; he was a born matchmaker.

  • Apparently a sort of master of the ceremonies at Finnish weddings, corresponding to the Russian svat, or matchmaker.