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Matchmaking vs Shidduch - What's the difference?

matchmaking | shidduch |

As nouns the difference between matchmaking and shidduch

is that matchmaking is an attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other, especially an attempt to set up a date between people or to arrange a marriage while shidduch is a system of matchmaking in which Jewish singles are introduced to each other.

As a verb matchmaking

is present participle of lang=en.

matchmaking

English

Alternative forms

* match-making

Noun

  • An attempt to make two people romantically interested in each other, especially an attempt to set up a date between people or to arrange a marriage.
  • * 1851 : Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
    • The marriage was highly approved of by Mrs. Shelby, who, with a little womanly complacency in match-making , felt pleased to unite her handsome favorite with one of her own class who seemed in every way suited to her;
  • * 2001 : The Gilmore Girls (TV, episode 1.18)
    • Patty, your timing is excellent. There's Claude over there. Want me to do some matchmaking ?
  • * 1815 : Jane Austen, Emma
    • I planned the match from that hour; and when such success has blessed me in this instance, dear papa, you cannot think that I shall leave off match-making .
  • (business) A service aiming to bring together sellers and buyers or potential partners.
  • * 1971 : Eunice L. Watson and Arthur Cope Emlem, Matchmaking in Neighborhood Day Care: A Descriptive Study of the Day Care Neighbor Service [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0876782012&id=69dGcYLvw0UC&q=matchmaking&dq=matchmaking]
    • ... there was evidence that they did provide information for day care matchmaking to the potential users and givers of care.
  • (video games) The act or process of locating suitable players to take part in a multiplayer game session.
  • The manufacture of matches for kindling or burning.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • * 1700 : William Congreve, The Way of the World
    • Why, then, Foible's a bawd, an errant, rank match-making bawd.
  • * 1876 : Louisa May Alcott, Rose in Bloom
    • We are a couple of old fools to be matchmaking so soon ...
  • * 2002 : Alias (TV, episode 2.09)
    • Not to brag, but I'm kind of responsible for matchmaking you and Irina.

    shidduch

    English

    (wikipedia shidduch)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Judaism) A system of matchmaking in which Jewish singles are introduced to each other.