Definition of shidduch in English:
shidduch
nounPlural shidduchim ˈʃɪdəxˈSHidəKH
A Jewish arranged marriage.
Example sentencesExamples
- A serious illness, a looming financial disaster, a divorce, or long hoped for shidduch - and the adrenalin-fed powers of concentration are flowing in no time at all.
- Turns out that I've done a football shidduch - T is a season ticket holder and has a spare ticket for Monday's big match, and P is a big fan.
- Unfortunately, I cannot speak publicly about it because it will affect ‘shidduchim‘.
- Now I've been on a lot of shidduchim (tr: plural word for arranged meetings with a view to marriage) in my life, and not all of my own volition.
- And this one over here, he's a very nice doctor I've set up on a shidduch later this week.
Origin
Yiddish, from Hebrew šiddūḵ 'negotiation (of a marriage)'.