Soulmate

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

Example

More examples

"You'll have three relationships before you meet your true soulmate."

Etymology

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

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