To our surprise, he was defeated in the match.
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Match
//mæt͡ʃ//
Synonyms for "match" (513 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (103)
correspondcoupleequalpeerpita world-without-end bargainaccompanyaccordaccumulateadjustadmit of comparisonadventurousadversaryaffiliationagglomerateaggregateaggroupagreealignalliance
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amassamountamount toanalogizeanalogueansweranswer toantagonistantiapeappear likeapproachapproximatearrange a matchassembleassentassimilateassociateassort withbalancebatchbe commensurablebe comparablebe consistentbe in phasebe in timebe likebe of onebe parallelbe redolent ofbe uniform withbear resemblancebedbelongbetrothalblendbond of matrimonybothboutbracebracketbreak evenbridebedbring into analogybring into comparisonbring to mindbring togetherbulkbump headsbunchbunch togetherbunch upcacall to mindcall upcandidatecandlecapcatchcheckchimeclumpclustercoequalcoexistcoextendcohabitationcoherecoincidecollectcolligatecollimatecollineatecollocatecombinationcombinecome closecome nearcome to
Noun(1 words)
Strong matches (154)
come up tocompactcompanioncomparecompare and contrastcompare tocompare withcomparisoncompeercompetecompete withcompetitioncompilecomplementconconcoursconcurconformconform withconfront
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conglomeratecongrevecongreve matchconjoinconjugal bondconjugal knotconjugateconsist withcontemporizecontendcontestcontractcontraposecontrapositcontrastcooperatecoordinatecopycorralcorrelatecorrespond tocorrespondentcountercounteractcounterfeitcounterpartcounterposecouple upcoupletcoverturecumulatedead ringerdecathlonderbydig updistichdittodoubledouble harnessdouble headerdouble-harnessdouble-headerdouble-teamdoublesdoubletdovetaildrawdraw a comparisondraw a paralleldraw togetherdredge updrive togetherduadduelduetduoduplicatedyadeffigyelectric light bulbencounterengagementenlargeequateequidistanceequipollentequivalenteveneven offeventevokeexact likenessfacefacsimilefall in togetherfavorfellowfightfirefitfit togetherfixtureflamefollowfoursomefriction matchfrontfuseegamegamesgames of chancegathergather ingather togethergaugeget inget togethergive awaygive in kindglimgogo alongsidego besidego togethergo withgradegraduategroupgymkhanahang togetherharmonizehithitchhold togetherholy matrimonyholy wedlockhusbandhoodiconidol
Noun(5 words)
Related words (256)
ill-assorted marriageilluminantilluminatorimageimitateincandescent bodyinterlockintermarriageinterracial marriageintersectisochronizejibejoinjoin togetherjoustjuxtaposekeep in stepkeep pace withknotlamp
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lanternlex talionislie oppositelightlight bulblight sourcelikelikenliken tolikenessline uplinkliving imageliving picturelocklocofocolook likeluciferluminantluminarylump togethermake a matchmake onemake upmarriagemarriage bedmarriage sacramentmarrymassmatch up withmatchingmatematesmatrimonial unionmatrimonymeasuremeasure againstmeasure upmeasure up tomeetmeet head onmeet head-onmeetingmesalliancemeshmetaphorizemimicminiaturemirrormirroringmisalliancemiscegenationmixed marriagemobilizemodelmoonmusternearnearly reproducenot compare withnot tell apartnuptialnuptial bondolympic gamesolympicsopponentopposeopposeropposite numberoppugnantoverlappairpair offparagonparallelparallelizepartake ofpartnerpartnershippentathlonphotographpicturepit againstplace againstplace parallel toplayplay-offpolarizeportraitpose againstproportionprospectput in oppositionput togetherraceraiserake uprallyrangerankreachrealignreciprocalreciprocatereflectionregisterregister withrelateremind one ofrencontrerepay in kindreplicareproduceresemblanceresemblerespond toreturn the complimentreturn the likerivalrivalryround uprubbingrun a comparisonrun abreastrun parallelrun torunningrunoffsacrament of matrimonysafety matchsavor ofscrape togetherseemseem likesemblanceset in contrastset in oppositionset of twoset offset off againstset over againstshadowsimilitudesimilizesimulacrumsimulatesing in chorussinglessizesmack ofsortsort withsound likesource of lightspanspit and imagespitting imagesplicesportspousehoodsquaresquare withstack upstack up withstand opposedstand oppositestand togetherstarstarsstrugglesubtendsuggestsuitsunsupplementsynchronizetake aftertake uptallytaperteamteam uptestthe twothreesometietilttimetorchtouchtournamenttourneytracetracingtrialtwaintwintwotwosomeunionuniteunite in marriagevery imagevery picturevestavesuvianvievie withview togetherwedwedded blisswedded stateweddednesswedding knotwedlockweighweigh againstwhip inwifehoodyoke
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1 entriesSynonyms
6 entriesRelated terms
10 entriescapable of
8 entriescauses
2 entriesderived
136 entriesShowing 16 of 136 words.
has context
2 entriesis a
11 entriesmanner of
4 entriesreceives action
1 entriesrelated to
25 entriesShowing 16 of 25 words.
similar
20 entriesShowing 16 of 20 words.
used for
6 entriesTranslations
513 translations across 139 languages.
Adyghe
1 entries- матч noun (sporting event)
Afrikaans
1 entries- vuurhoutjie noun (device to make fire)
Albanian
3 entries- ndeshje noun (sporting event)
- perputh noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
- shkrepëse noun (device to make fire)
Arabic
4 entries- ثِقَاب noun (device to make fire)
- شَحّاطَة noun (device to make fire)
- شَخَّاطَة noun (device to make fire)
- عُود ثِقَاب noun (device to make fire)
Aragonese
2 entries- fosforo noun (device to make fire)
- misto noun (device to make fire)
Armenian
4 entries- լուցկի noun (device to make fire)
- խաղ noun (sporting event)
- մատչ noun (sporting event)
- մրցամարտ noun (sporting event)
Asturian
3 entries- cerilla noun (device to make fire)
- mistu noun (device to make fire)
- partíu noun (sporting event)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- kibrit noun (device to make fire)
- matç noun (sporting event)
- müsabiqə noun (sporting event)
- uyğun gəlmək verb (intransitive: to agree; to be equal)
Bashkir
1 entries- шырпы noun (device to make fire)
Basque
2 entries- partida noun (sporting event)
- pospolo noun (device to make fire)
Belarusian
3 entries- запа́лка noun (device to make fire)
- матч noun (sporting event)
- спабо́рніцтва noun (sporting event)
Bengali
3 entries- দেশলাই noun (device to make fire)
- ম্যাচ noun (sporting event)
- ম্যাচ noun (device to make fire)
Bulgarian
4 entries- еш noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
- кибри́т noun (device to make fire)
- мач noun (sporting event)
- равносто́йност noun (equivalence)
Burmese
2 entries- ပြိုင်ပွဲ noun (sporting event)
- မီးခြစ် noun (device to make fire)
Carpathian Rusyn
1 entries- шваблик noun (device to make fire)
Catalan
4 entries- llumí noun (device to make fire)
- matx noun (sporting event)
- misto noun (device to make fire)
- partit noun (sporting event)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- شِخاتە noun (device to make fire)
Chechen
1 entries- сирник noun (device to make fire)
Chinese
4 entries- бисэ noun (sporting event)
- зыфахуә noun (device to make fire)
- хуәщён noun (device to make fire)
- чүдынзы noun (device to make fire)
Chinese Cantonese
2 entries- 比賽 /比赛 noun (sporting event)
- 火柴 noun (device to make fire)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 比賽 /比赛 noun (sporting event)
- 火柴 noun (device to make fire)
Corsican
4 entries- fiammiferu noun (device to make fire)
- fulminante noun (device to make fire)
- fulminente noun (device to make fire)
- zolfanellu noun (device to make fire)
Crimean Tatar
1 entries- sernik noun (device to make fire)
Czech
4 entries- sirka noun (device to make fire)
- zápalka noun (device to make fire)
- zápas noun (sporting event)
- odpovídat verb (intransitive: to agree; to be equal)
Danish
2 entries- kamp noun (sporting event)
- tændstik noun (device to make fire)
Dari
2 entries- مُسَابَقَه noun (sporting event)
- کِبْرِیت noun (device to make fire)
Dutch
4 entries- evenknie noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
- gelijke noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
- lucifer noun (device to make fire)
- match noun (sporting event)
Eastern Min Chinese
2 entries- 比賽 /比赛 noun (sporting event)
- 自來火 /自来火 noun (device to make fire)
Esperanto
4 entries- alumeto noun (device to make fire)
- matĉo noun (sporting event)
- egali verb (transitive: to agree with; to be equal to)
- kongrui verb (intransitive: to agree; to be equal)
Estonian
4 entries- matš noun (sporting event)
- tikk noun (device to make fire)
- tuletikk noun (device to make fire)
- klapitama verb (make a successful pairing)
Fala
4 entries- cerilla (Valverdeñu) noun (device to make fire)
- fósforu noun (device to make fire)
- fósfuru (Valverdeñu) noun (device to make fire)
- mixtu noun (device to make fire)
Faroese
2 entries- dystur noun (sporting event)
- svávulpinnur noun (device to make fire)
Finnish
4 entries- matsi noun (sporting event)
- ottelu noun (sporting event)
- tulitikku noun (device to make fire)
- vertainen noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
French
4 entries- allumette noun (device to make fire)
- match noun (sporting event)
- metche noun (device to make fire)
- accorder verb (intransitive: to agree; to be equal)
Galician
4 entries- candea noun (device to make fire)
- fósforo noun (device to make fire)
- lumieira noun (device to make fire)
- misto noun (device to make fire)
Gan Chinese
1 entries- 比賽 /比赛 noun (sporting event)
Georgian
2 entries- ასანთი noun (device to make fire)
- მატჩი noun (sporting event)
German
4 entries- Hölzchen noun (device to make fire)
- Match noun (sporting event)
- Spiel noun (sporting event)
- Streichholz noun (device to make fire)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌲𐌰𐍄𐌹𐌼𐌰𐌽 verb (intransitive: to agree; to be equal)
Greek
3 entries- αγώνας noun (sporting event)
- ματς noun (sporting event)
- σπίρτο noun (device to make fire)
Gujarati
1 entries- રમત noun (sporting event)
Hausa
1 entries- ashana noun (device to make fire)
Hebrew
2 entries- גַּפְרוּר noun (device to make fire)
- תַּחֲרוּת noun (sporting event)
Hindi
3 entries- दियासलाई noun (device to make fire)
- माचिस noun (device to make fire)
- मैच noun (sporting event)
Hungarian
4 entries- gyufa noun (device to make fire)
- meccs noun (sporting event)
- mérkőzés noun (sporting event)
- egyezik verb (intransitive: to agree; to be equal)
Icelandic
2 entries- eldspýta noun (device to make fire)
- keppni noun (sporting event)
Ido
2 entries- alumeto noun (device to make fire)
- konkurso noun (sporting event)
Indonesian
2 entries- korek api noun (device to make fire)
- pertandingan noun (sporting event)
Ingrian
1 entries- picka noun (device to make fire)
Interlingua
1 entries- flammifero noun (device to make fire)
Iranian Persian
2 entries- مُسابِقِه noun (sporting event)
- کِبْریت noun (device to make fire)
Irish
4 entries- cluiche noun (sporting event)
- diongbháil noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
- lasán noun (device to make fire)
- meaits noun (device to make fire)
Italian
4 entries- (degno) avversario noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
- abbinamento noun (equivalence)
- accoppiata noun (equivalence)
- cerino noun (device to make fire)
Japanese
4 entries- マッチ noun (device to make fire)
- 回戦 noun (sporting event)
- 火柴 noun (device to make fire)
- 燐寸 noun (device to make fire)
Jin Chinese
1 entries- 洋取燈 /洋取灯 noun (device to make fire)
Kapampangan
1 entries- kasapegu noun (device to make fire)
Kazakh
4 entries- жарыс noun (sporting event)
- күкірт noun (device to make fire)
- матч noun (sporting event)
- оттық noun (device to make fire)
Khmer
2 entries- កីឡា noun (sporting event)
- ឈើគូស noun (device to make fire)
Korean
4 entries- 경기 noun (sporting event)
- 성냥 noun (device to make fire)
- 시합 noun (sporting event)
- 맞다 verb (intransitive: to agree; to be equal)
Kyrgyz
3 entries- матч noun (sporting event)
- мелдеш noun (sporting event)
- ширеңке noun (device to make fire)
Ladin
1 entries- fulimant noun (device to make fire)
Ladino
1 entries- yakishear verb (intransitive: to agree; to be equal)
Lao
3 entries- ກັບຂີດ noun (device to make fire)
- ກັບໄຟ noun (device to make fire)
- ການແຂ່ງຂັນ noun (sporting event)
Latin
2 entries- certāmen noun (sporting event)
- adaequō verb (equal or exceed in achievement)
Latvian
2 entries- mačs noun (sporting event)
- sērkociņš noun (device to make fire)
Leonese
1 entries- mistu noun (device to make fire)
Limburgish
1 entries- zwaegel noun (device to make fire)
Lingala
1 entries- aliméti noun (device to make fire)
Lithuanian
2 entries- degtukas noun (device to make fire)
- mačas noun (sporting event)
Lombard
2 entries- sofranell noun (device to make fire)
- zolfanello noun (device to make fire)
Low German
1 entries- rietsticken noun (device to make fire)
Lower Sorbian
1 entries- zapalka noun (device to make fire)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- Fixspoun noun (device to make fire)
Macedonian
4 entries- кибритче noun (device to make fire)
- меч noun (sporting event)
- натпревар noun (sporting event)
- чкорче noun (device to make fire)
Magahi
1 entries- 𑂮𑂪𑂰𑂅 noun (device to make fire)
Malay
2 entries- mancis noun (device to make fire)
- perlawanan noun (sporting event)
Maltese
2 entries- logħba noun (sporting event)
- sulfarina noun (device to make fire)
Manx
1 entries- foaddan noun (device to make fire)
Maranao
1 entries- bagi'id noun (device to make fire)
Middle English
1 entries- macchen verb (intransitive: to agree; to be equal)
Mongolian
4 entries- тэмцээн noun (sporting event)
- чүдэнз noun (device to make fire)
- шүдэнз noun (device to make fire)
- ᠲᠡᠮᠡᠴᠡᠭᠡᠨ noun (sporting event)
Māori
4 entries- hāngaitanga noun (equivalence)
- kēmu noun (sporting event)
- ōritenga noun (equivalence)
- kātata verb (equal or exceed in achievement)
Navajo
1 entries- tsitłʼéłí noun (device to make fire)
Neapolitan
1 entries- micciariello noun (device to make fire)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- iɓiriti noun (device to make fire)
Northern Kurdish
4 entries- ferengi noun (device to make fire)
- gogird noun (device to make fire)
- şixar noun (device to make fire)
- şixart noun (device to make fire)
Northern Min Chinese
1 entries- 番仔火 noun (device to make fire)
Norwegian
4 entries- jevnbyrdig noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
- like noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
- likemann noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
- passe sammen verb (intransitive: to agree; to be equal)
Norwegian Bokmål
4 entries- fyrstikk noun (device to make fire)
- kamp noun (sporting event)
- match noun (sporting event)
- pare verb (make a successful pairing)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- fyrstikk noun (device to make fire)
Occitan
2 entries- aluqueta noun (device to make fire)
- luquet noun (device to make fire)
Ojibwe
1 entries- ishkodens noun (device to make fire)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- كبریت noun (device to make fire)
Pashto
4 entries- تيلی noun (device to make fire)
- ماچس noun (device to make fire)
- ګوګرد noun (device to make fire)
- ګوګړ noun (device to make fire)
Piedmontese
2 entries- brichet noun (device to make fire)
- bricheti noun (device to make fire)
Polish
4 entries- mecz noun (sporting event)
- zapałka noun (device to make fire)
- zawody noun (sporting event)
- dopasowywać verb (make a successful pairing)
Portuguese
4 entries- combate noun (sporting event)
- fósforo noun (device to make fire)
- jogo noun (sporting event)
- luta noun (sporting event)
Quechua
1 entries- ninachaq noun (device to make fire)
Romani
1 entries- prosperi noun (device to make fire)
Romanian
4 entries- chibrit noun (device to make fire)
- egal noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
- joc noun (sporting event)
- meci noun (sporting event)
Russian
4 entries- матч noun (sporting event)
- па́ра noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
- ро́вня noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
- ровня́ noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
Sardinian
1 entries- luminu noun (device to make fire)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- lasadan noun (device to make fire)
- leithid noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
- freagair do/ri/air verb (intransitive: to agree; to be equal)
- thig suas ri verb (equal or exceed in achievement)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- mȅč noun (sporting event)
- palidŕvce noun (device to make fire)
- šȉbica noun (device to make fire)
- žȉgica noun (device to make fire)
Sicilian
4 entries- cirinu noun (device to make fire)
- fosfiru noun (device to make fire)
- pospiru noun (device to make fire)
- pòspuru noun (device to make fire)
Silesian
1 entries- sztrahecla noun (device to make fire)
Slovak
4 entries- ekvivalent noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
- rovnocenný noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
- seberovný noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
- sirka noun (device to make fire)
Slovene
2 entries- tekma noun (sporting event)
- vžigalica noun (device to make fire)
Spanish
4 entries- cerilla noun (device to make fire)
- cerillo noun (device to make fire)
- combinación noun (a pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics)
- complemento noun (equivalence)
Swahili
3 entries- kibiriti noun (device to make fire)
- mashindano noun (sporting event)
- mechi noun (sporting event)
Swedish
4 entries- like noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
- match noun (sporting event)
- tändsticka noun (device to make fire)
- matcha verb (intransitive: to agree; to be equal)
Tagalog
1 entries- posporo noun (device to make fire)
Tajik
4 entries- вохӯрӣ noun (sporting event)
- гӯгирд noun (device to make fire)
- кибрит noun (device to make fire)
- мусобиқа noun (sporting event)
Talysh
1 entries- کیبریت noun (device to make fire)
Tamil
1 entries- தீக்குச்சி noun (device to make fire)
Tatar
1 entries- шырпы noun (device to make fire)
Telugu
1 entries- అగ్గిపుల్ల noun (device to make fire)
Thai
3 entries- การแข่ง noun (sporting event)
- ไม้ขีด noun (device to make fire)
- ไม้ขีดไฟ noun (device to make fire)
Tibetan
3 entries- མུ་ཟི noun (device to make fire)
- ཙག་སྒྲ noun (device to make fire)
- འགྲན་སྡུར noun (sporting event)
Turkish
4 entries- alışkan noun (device to make fire)
- kibrit noun (device to make fire)
- kükürt noun (device to make fire)
- maç noun (sporting event)
Turkmen
2 entries- kükürt noun (device to make fire)
- matç noun (sporting event)
Ukrainian
4 entries- змага́ння noun (sporting event)
- матч noun (sporting event)
- рі́вня noun (attribute equaling or exceeding)
- сірни́к noun (device to make fire)
Urdu
4 entries- دِیا سَلائی noun (device to make fire)
- ماچِس noun (device to make fire)
- مَیچ noun (sporting event)
- مُسابَقَہ noun (sporting event)
Uyghur
2 entries- سەرەڭگە noun (device to make fire)
- مۇسابىقە noun (sporting event)
Uzbek
3 entries- gugurt noun (device to make fire)
- match noun (sporting event)
- musobaqa noun (sporting event)
Venetan
2 entries- fulminanti noun (device to make fire)
- fuminante noun (device to make fire)
Vietnamese
3 entries- diêm noun (device to make fire)
- trận cầu noun (sporting event)
- trận đấu noun (sporting event)
Vilamovian
1 entries- cyndhełcła noun (device to make fire)
Volapük
1 entries- lümät noun (device to make fire)
Walloon
3 entries- lûte noun (sporting event)
- match noun (sporting event)
- pårteye noun (sporting event)
Welsh
4 entries- gêm noun (sporting event)
- matsh noun (device to make fire)
- matsien noun (device to make fire)
- tanen noun (device to make fire)
Wu Chinese
3 entries- 比賽 /比赛 noun (sporting event)
- 洋火 noun (device to make fire)
- 自來火 /自来火 noun (device to make fire)
Yakut
1 entries- испиискэ noun (device to make fire)
Yiddish
2 entries- מאַטש noun (sporting event)
- שוועבל noun (device to make fire)
Yup'ik
1 entries- espickaq noun (device to make fire)
Yámana
1 entries- swali noun (device to make fire)
Zazaki
1 entries- mısabeqa noun (sporting event)
Zhuang
1 entries- habfeiz noun (device to make fire)
liégeois
1 entries- aloumète noun (device to make fire)
Sample sentences
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As I entered the café, I found two young men watching a wrestling match on television.
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As I entered a tearoom, I found two young men watching a wrestling match on television.
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I am no match for him in diplomatic shrewdness.
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