blind date

blind date

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

blind date (plural blind dates)

1. (idiomatic) A date (romantic meeting) between two people who have never met before.
   • 1978, “Blind Date”, in A Tonic for the Troops, performed by The Boomtown Rats:

     A blind date is a blinkered meeting / A rendez-vous with some person unknown / A secret tryst, a shady dealing / A gambler's chance when love's dice are thrown

Translations

romantic meeting between two people who have never met before

Catalan: cita a cegues f Chinese: Mandarin: 相親／相亲 (zh) (xiāngqīn) Finnish: sokkotreffit (fi) pl French: rencontre à l'aveugle f, rendez-vous surprise m German: Blind Date (de) n Indonesian: kencan buta Italian: appuntamento al buio m Japanese: ブラインドデート (buraindo dēto), お見合い (おみあい, o-miai) (pre-arranged) Korean: 미팅 (ko) (miting), 맞선 (matseon) (pre-arranged), 소개팅 (sogaeting) (pre-arranged) Polish: randka w ciemno f Portuguese: encontro às cegas m Russian: свида́ние вслепу́ю n (svidánije vslepúju), смотри́ны (ru) f pl (smotríny) (dated, old Russian tradition, "bride show") Spanish: cita a ciegas f Swedish: blindträff c Tagalog: sitang ligaw Turkish: kör randevu Ukrainian: поба́чення нао́сліп n (pobáčennja naóslip) Vietnamese: dạm ngõ

See also

• miai, omiai