love match

American  

noun

1. a marriage entered into for love alone.

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love match British  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of love match

First recorded in 1740–50

Example Sentences

He’ll even dig up the grave of a suitable love match.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

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 • Feb. 2, 2024

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 • Dec. 2, 2023

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 • Sep. 8, 2022

All they knew was that it was a purely love match, very unusual in those all-for-money-days.

From Zoe; Or, Some Day A Novel by Leonard, May