Noun: match
| Singular | match |
| Plural | matches |
Sample Sentences
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My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.
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Can you play billiards? / Yes, do you wish to have a match with me? / Let us simply play (a game) for pleasure. We needn't have a match, as I don't like to gamble. [1886, Lim Hiong Seng, Handbook of the Swatow Vernacular, Singapore: Koh Yew Hean Press:]
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Ferrer his Taberd vvith rich Verry ſpred, / VVell knovvne in many a vvarlike match before; […] [1630, Michaell Draiton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “The Second Booke of the Barrons Warres”, in Poems: […], London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] Ling, →OCLC, stanza 22, page 31:]
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A solemn match was made; he lost the prize. [1697, Virgil, “(please specify the page)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:]
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He knew he had met his match.
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Government […] makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects. [1716 February 9 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 12. Sunday, January 30. [1716.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC:]
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Dean Ippolito looks like an ordinary kid. But at chess, he is a knight of battle. Most adults are no match for him. [1991, Boys' Life, volume 81, number 4:]
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She […] was looked upon as the richest match of the West. [1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, (please specify |book=I to XVI), in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater:]
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The seat to window match is excellent and there are half-size partition screens between bays. [2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 51:]
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It were no match, your nail against his horn. [c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:]
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The carpet and curtains are a match.
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a match made in heaven
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Thy hand upon that match. [c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:]
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[I]t hath been obſerv'd, that Love doth ſeldome ſuffer it ſelf to be confin'd by other matches, then thoſe of its ovvne making. (Seraphick Love) [1648 August 16 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Robert Boyle, Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God. […] [Seraphick Love], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], published 1659, →OCLC, page 6:]
Nouns inflected like match
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English macche, mecche, from Old English mæċċa, ġemæċċa (“companion, mate, wife, one suited to another”), from Proto-West Germanic *makkjō, *gamakkjō (“partner, equal”), from Proto-Germanic *makô, from Proto-Indo-European *mag- (“to knead, work”). Compare Danish mage (“mate”), Icelandic maki (“spouse”). See: Middle English Nouns '
macche', Old English Nouns '
mæċċa', Danish Nouns '
mage', Icelandic Nouns '
maki'.
Verbs referencing "match"
French Nouns
match, Italian Nouns
match, Icelandic Nouns
maki, Danish Nouns
mage, Finnish Nouns
matsi, Czech Nouns
mač, Hungarian Nouns
meccs, Russian Nouns
матч, Ukrainian Nouns
матч, Romanian Nouns
meci, Catalan Nouns
matx, French Nouns
metche, Irish Nouns
meaits.