match

About 21.96 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any contest or trial of strength or skill, or to determine superiority.

   My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.

2. noun A competitive sporting event such as a boxing meet, a baseball game, or a cricket match.

   My local team are playing in a match against their arch-rivals today.

3. noun Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
4. noun A pair of items or entities with mutually suitable characteristics.

   The carpet and curtains are a match.

5. noun Someone with a measure of an attribute equaling or exceeding the object of comparison.

   He knew he had met his match.

6. noun Equivalence; a state of correspondence; a counterpart.
7. noun An agreement or compact.
8. noun A marriage. A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.

Similar words

check catch mate rival meet touch cope with peer oppose pit

Often followed by

the for between with in and to is was

Word family

matchable matched matcher matchers matches matching