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'.