Crossword-Solution: MATCHMAKING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Matchmaking | n. | The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning. |
| Matchmaking | n. | The act or process of trying to bring about a marriage for others. |
| Matchmaking | a. | Busy in making or contriving marriages; as, a matchmaking woman. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “MATCHMAKING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Dolly Levi activity | 1 answer |
| mediation in order to bring about a marriage between others | 1 answer |
| the business of bringing suitable people together for marriage | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MATCHMAKING (5)
What beats me is how you found out—” “Oh, about the jewels? I invented that part,” explained Vera; “I mean the mystery was where old Betsy’s arrears of rent were to come from; and she would have hated leaving that jolly quince tree.” THE FORBIDDEN BUZZARDS “Is matchmaking at all in your line?” Hugo Peterby asked the question with a certain amount of personal interest.
His strong sense had always protected him from the tricks of matchmaking mammas and their guileless maids.
The ladies here do not want the help of assemblies to assist in matchmaking, or half-pay officers to run away with their daughters, which the meetings called assemblies in some other parts of England are recommended for.
Where she was seen she shone, and with such radiance as caused matchmaking matrons great dismay, and their daughters woeful qualms.
You may be ever so much of a gentleman and a privy councillor, but if you have a daughter you cannot be secure of immunity from that petty bourgeois atmosphere which is so often brought into your house and into your mood by the attentions of suitors, by matchmaking and marriage.
Quotes with MATCHMAKING (3)
Bathsheba looked at Benedict. "You never told me they were matchmaking.""He didn't notice!" said his father before Benedict could answer. "He didn't notice handsome young misses of unexceptionable family. He didn't notice beautiful heiresses. We tried bluestockings. We tried country girls. We tried everything. He didn't notice! But Bathsheba Winngate, the most notorious woman in all of England, he noticed.""We notorious women tend to stand out," she said.
There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of th…
Just because your lover died doesn't mean you can't find another. Besides, ifyou don't start dating again your parents will intervene and I've met your parents, they scare the crap out of me." Anthony shivered at the memory of his parents'matchmaking skills. "Last time they fixed me up with a fairy." Steven snorted. "I thought you didn't like labels.""No. He was an actual fairy, you know, from Faeland." That got Steven's full attention. "What happened?" Anthony shrugged. "Let's just say it didn't work out.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2004).