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

He wants to move back to Maryland, and the gang thought a love match might make it happen sooner.

From Washington Post

For one, easing the borders between our professional and personal lives during Covid-19 has led more people to explore love matches with people they work with.

From Quartz

She is by all accounts very fond of him, and her mother Carole is keen to see a love match.'

From The Daily Beast

It was a love-match on both sides; and poor Jacob was never the same after her death.

From Project Gutenberg

Considering he had made a second marriage, and a love match at that, this seemed rather strange.

From Project Gutenberg

She had made early what for want of a better expression we may call a love match, in which she had been bitterly disappointed.

From Project Gutenberg

She brought him a large dower, but he was wealthy and it was a love match.

From Project Gutenberg

For, unlike most Indian marriages, theirs was a true love-match.

From Project Gutenberg