soulmate

soulmate

See also: soul mate

English

Alternative forms

• soul mate

Etymology

soul +‎ mate. First attested as soul-mate in a 1822 letter by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.[1][2] Not in common usage before the 1980s.[3]

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

Noun

soulmate (plural soulmates)

1. Someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally or uniquely compatible or has a special, almost spiritual connection.
   • 2012, Ulli Springett; Tara Springett, Soulmate Relationships: How to find, keep and understand your perfect partner, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     Finding your wonderful soulmate is very similar to the process of sowing a seed and nurturing it into a beautiful blossoming plant.

   • 2015, “Jungle”, in If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, performed by Drake:

     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'

Hyponyms

• bashert

Translations

Someone with whom one has a special connection

Bulgarian: сродна душа f (srodna duša) Chinese: Mandarin: 靈魂伴侶／灵魂伴侣 (línghúnbànlǚ) Czech: spřízněná duše f Dutch: soulmate (nl) m, zielsverwant (nl) m, geestverwant (nl) m Esperanto: intimulo, intimulino Finnish: henkiystävä (fi), sielunkumppani French: âme sœur (fr) f German: Seelenverwandter m, Seelenverwandte f Greek: αδελφή ψυχή f (adelfí psychí) Hungarian: lelki társ (hu) Irish: anamchara m Italian: anima gemella (it) Japanese: 運命の人 (unmei no hito, literally “person of fate”), 赤い糸で結ばれた相手 (akai ito de musubareta aite, literally “partner bound by the red string of fate”) Korean: 천생연분 (ko) (cheonsaeng'yeonbun) Macedonian: сродна душа f (srodna duša) Maori: kare-ā-roto Polish: bratnia dusza (pl), pokrewna dusza f, przyjazna dusza f Portuguese: alma gémea (pt) f (Portugal), alma gêmea (pt) f (Brazil) Russian: задуше́вный друг m (zadušévnyj drug), задуше́вная подру́га f (zadušévnaja podrúga), единомы́шленник (ru) m (jedinomýšlennik) (sympathizer); (of lovers:) друг се́рдца m (drug sérdca), подру́га се́рдца f (podrúga sérdca), ро́дственная душа́ f (ródstvennaja dušá) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: srodna duša n Spanish: alma gemela f Swedish: själsfrände (sv) c Telugu: ఆత్మీయుడు (te) (ātmīyuḍu) Thai: เนื้อคู่ (th) (nʉ́ʉa-kûu) Turkish: ruhsal eş (tr), ruh ikizi Vietnamese: bạn tri âm, tri kỉ, bạn tri kỉ

See also

• kindred spirit

References

1. “soulmate”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
2. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836), “Letter to a Young Lady”, in Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge, E. Moxon, page 89: “To be happy in Marriage Life, […] , in order not to be miserable, you must have a Soul-mate as well as a House or a Yoke-mate; […] ”
3. (soul mate + soulmate) at Google Ngram Viewer

Further reading

• soulmate on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “soulmate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• luteomas, talmouse

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English soulmate.

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: soul‧mate

Noun

soulmate m (plural soulmates, diminutive soulmateje n)

1. soulmate

Synonyms

• geestverwant
• zielsverwant