soulmate
soulmate noun: someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally or uniquely compatible or has a special, almost spiritual connection.
Noun
soulmate (plural soulmates)
- Someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally or uniquely compatible or has a special, almost spiritual connection.
- Finding your wonderful soulmate is very similar to the process of sowing a seed and nurturing it into a beautiful blossoming plant.2012, Ulli Springett, Tara Springett, Soulmate Relationships: How to find, keep and understand your perfect partner, Hachette UK, →ISBN
- I'm all over the place, I can't sit in one place / I'm not ashamed at all / Still findin' myself, let alone a soulmate, I'm just sayin'2015, “Jungle”, in If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, performed by Drake
soulmate meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Arabic
soulmate in Tamil
- உயிர் உறவர்
soulmate in Bengali
- soulmate
- জীবনসঙ্গী jibnośoṅgi
soulmate in Telugu
- Someone with whom one has a special connection
- ఆత్మీయుడు ātmīyuḍu
soulmate in Arabic
- Someone with whom one has a special connection
- تَوْأَم رُوح tawʔam rūḥ
More languagesFewer languages
- soulmate in Thai
- เนื้อคู่ nʉ́ʉa-kûu
- soulmate in Vietnamese
- bạn tri âm, tri kỉ, bạn tri kỉ
Examples of soulmate in a sentence
- The notion of soulmates reinforces the myth of supermonogamy.
- But alas, our education system seems to think finding our soulmates isn't as essential as algebra.
- ENCHANTING, RAINBOW-CHEERING, SWF, 37, raspberry-addicted, rural, hugaholic seeks position as soulmate, wife, stay-at-home Munchkin-rearer.
Forms of soulmate
| plural | soulmates |
|---|---|
| alternative form | soul mate |
Origin of soulmate
From soul + mate. First attested as soul-mate in an 1822 letter by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Not in common usage before the 1980s.
Words formed from soulmate
Questions about soulmate
- What does soulmate mean?
- Soulmate means someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally or uniquely compatible or has a special, almost spiritual connection.
- What is soulmate in Tamil?
- Soulmate in Tamil is உயிர் உறவர். See Soulmate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is soulmate?
- Soulmate is a noun.
- What is the plural of soulmate?
- The plural of soulmate is soulmates.
Words near soulmate in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: soulmate (page history and authors); soulmate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); জীবনসঙ্গী (Bengali) (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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