love match
love match noun: a marriage, betrothal, or other romantic relationship which is based on a spontaneous mutual feeling of love by the two individuals in the relationship, as opposed to a relationship based on other reasons or an arranged marriage brokered by parents or by third parties.
Noun
love match (plural love matches)
- A marriage, betrothal, or other romantic relationship which is based on a spontaneous mutual feeling of love by the two individuals in the relationship, as opposed to a relationship based on other reasons or an arranged marriage brokered by parents or by third parties.
- He had . . . two daughters, one of whom still flourished in single blessedness, and the other, who was greatly more juvenile, made a love-match with a captain in the Forty-twa, who had no other fortune but his commission and a Highland pedigree.1816, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 2, in The Antiquary—Volume I
- "And this I can tell you, 'tis not the five villages she marries, nor the Duke, but the man. And 'tis not the fine lady he takes to his heart, but our Clo, and none other, and would have taken her in her smock had she been a beggar wench. 'Tis an honest love-match, that I swear!"1897, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 27, in His Grace of Osmonde
love match meaning in Telugu
love match in Telugu
- a love match, without the authority of parents
- గాంధర్వము gāndharvamu
Examples of love match in a sentence
- It was, beyond doubt, the year's strangest love match.1978 August 7, “The Heiress and Her Comrade”, in Time, retrieved 14 Jun 2014:
- My second marriage, unlike my first, in which I became pregnant at 19 and married the man, was a love match from the start.2006 April 16, Sheila Kohler, “Modern Love: This Is Where the Dog Comes In”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Jun 2014:
Forms of love match
| plural | love matches |
|---|---|
| alternative form | love-match |
Questions about love match
- What does love match mean?
- Love match means a marriage, betrothal, or other romantic relationship which is based on a spontaneous mutual feeling of love by the two individuals in the relationship, as opposed to a relationship based on other reasons or an arranged marriage brokered by parents or by third parties.
- What is love match in Telugu?
- Love match in Telugu is గాంధర్వము (gāndharvamu). See Love match meaning in Telugu.
- How do you use love match in a sentence?
- It was, beyond doubt, the year's strangest love match.
- What part of speech is love match?
- Love match is a noun.
- What is the plural of love match?
- The plural of love match is love matches.
Words near love match in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: love match (page history and authors); గాంధర్వము (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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