love match

noun

1. a marriage entered into for love alone.

love match

noun

1. a betrothal or marriage based on mutual love rather than any other considerations

Word History and Origins

Origin of love match¹

First recorded in 1740–50

Example Sentences

Initially awkward together, they gradually form an attachment informed by the trauma of the job, and their arranged union becomes a love match — albeit an unusually complicated one.

From Los Angeles Times

Kounalakis said she once set Harris up on a date, but “it was not a love match.”

From Los Angeles Times

Whether Turner and Nist’s love match turns out to be the Real Deal doesn't concern most of us in the long run.

From Salon

A paunchy, bespectacled, depressed widower with back pain, Farrell oozes melancholy as he checks into a hotel where he hopes to make a love match in 45 days or be turned into the titular animal.

From Salon

He’s also staging it at his Washington company, with an entirely different setting: a D.C. television newsroom, in which the passive-aggressive love match of Beatrice and Benedick is co-anchoring a telecast.

From Washington Post