Definitions for shadchan

shadchan shad·chan

Spelling: [Yiddish, Ashkenazic Hebrew, English shaht-khuh n;
IPA: /Yiddish, Ashkenazic Hebrew, English ˈʃɑt xən; Sephardic Hebrew ʃɑtˈxɑn/

Shadchan is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 145 anagrams from letters in shadchan (aacdhhns).

Definitions for shadchan

noun

  1. shadkhan.
  2. a person who arranges Jewish marriages; matchmaker.

Origin of shadchan

Yiddish shatkhn Hebrew shadhkhān, derivative of shiddēkh arrange a marriage

Examples for shadchan

Eliphaz grunted vaguely, and the shadchan went on triumphantly.

She joined the enemy—the family and the shadchan—and my mother saw that she was doomed.

The shadchan, or marriage broker, has undoubtedly been an enemy to the Jewish people within their own lines.

I can show you a much larger stock than the ordinary shadchan.'

"Perhaps they won't give a dowry," he thought, with a consolatory sense of outwitting the shadchan.

She still lives with her brother and his wife; he married Sugarman the shadchan's daughter, you know.'

One day, as she was leaving the school-premises, Sugarman the shadchan accosted her.

"He has all the qualities that you desire," began the shadchan, in a tone that repudiated the implications of the monosyllable.

"Perhaps they won't give a dowry," he thought with a consolatory sense of outwitting the shadchan.

Sugarman the shadchan was not more zealous than is your vendor of rare books.

Word Value for shadchan
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17

Words with friends

17

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