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词汇 shadchan
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Definition of shadchan in English:

shadchan

(also shadkhan)
nounPlural shadchans, Plural shadchanim ˈʃadxənˈʃɒdxən
  • A Jewish professional matchmaker or marriage broker.

    (犹太人)职业媒人,婚姻中介人

    Example sentencesExamples
    • From the stories told by Cherie's close friends, mother, sister, and shadchan, I realized that her road towards matrimony had been pockmarked by sudden detours, geographic dislocations, and emotional turbulence.
    • By the 15th century, scholars as great as Maharal earned their livelihoods as professional shadchanim.
    • Joanne, an effervescent 42-year-old mother of seven, is a shadchan, one of the matchmakers who devote hours each day to arranging matrimonial blind dates, or shidduchs.
    • When young Orthodox men and women reach a marriageable age, and receive a recommendation from a shadchan, or matchmaker, about a potential mate, they make a very important phone call.
    • He kept telling shadchanim he was a yeshiva graduate.

Origin

From Yiddish shadkhn, based on Hebrew šiddēḵ 'negotiate'.

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