soulmate

Meaning

Noun

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

Related

Narrower meaning words

• bashert

Origin

• soul + mate. First attested as soul-mate in a 1822 letter by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.{{cite-book
• |year=1836
• |publisher=E. Moxon
• |title=Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge
• |chapter=Letter to a Young Lady
• |author=Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• |authorlink=Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• |page=89
• |pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=CLY8AAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA89&dq=%22You%20must%20have%20a%20Soul-mate%20as%20well%20as%20a%20House%20or%20a%20Yoke-mate.%22&pg=PA89#v=onepage&q=%22You%20must%20have%20a%20Soul-mate%20as%20well%20as%20a%20House%20or%20a%20Yoke-mate.%22&f=false
• |passage=To be happy in Marriage Life, , in order not to be miserable, you must have a Soul-mate as well as a House or a Yoke-mate;
• Not in common usage before the 1980s.