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soulmate

noun

Etymology

From soul + mate. First attested as soul-mate in an 1822 letter by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Not in common usage before the 1980s.

  1. derived from *gamatjô✻
  2. derived from gimato
  3. derived from mate — “messmate”
  4. inherited from mate
  5. formed as soulmate — “soul + mate”

Definitions

  1. Someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally or uniquely…

    Someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally or uniquely compatible or has a special, almost spiritual connection.

    • Finding your wonderful soulmate is very similar to the process of sowing a seed and nurturing it into a beautiful blossoming plant.
    • I'm all over the place, I can't sit in one place / I'm not ashamed at all / Still findin' myself, let alone a soulmate, I'm just sayin'

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at soulmate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01soulmate02uniquely03unique04unparalleled05comparison06relative07connected08friend09lover

A definitional loop anchored at soulmate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at soulmate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA