blind date

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

Noun

blind date (plural blind dates)

1. (idiomatic) A date (romantic meeting) between two people who have never met before.
   • 1978, “Blind Date”, in A Tonic for the Troops, performed by The Boomtown Rats:

     A blind date is a blinkered meeting / A rendez-vous with some person unknown / A secret tryst, a shady dealing / A gambler's chance when love's dice are thrown

Translations

romantic meeting between two people who have never met before

• Catalan: cita a cegues f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 相親／相亲 (zh) (xiāngqīn)

• Finnish: sokkotreffit (fi) pl
• French: rencontre à l’aveugle f, rendez-vous surprise m, rendez-vous à l’aveugle (fr) m
• German: Blind Date (de) n
• Indonesian: kencan buta
• Italian: appuntamento al buio m
• Japanese: ブラインドデート (buraindo dēto), お見合い (ja) (おみあい, o-miai) (pre-arranged)
• Korean: 미팅 (ko) (miting), 맞선 (matseon) (pre-arranged), 소개팅 (sogaeting) (pre-arranged)
• Polish: randka w ciemno f
• Portuguese: encontro às cegas m
• Russian: свида́ние вслепу́ю n (svidánije vslepúju), смотри́ны (ru) f pl (smotríny) (dated, old Russian tradition, "bride show")
• Spanish: cita a ciegas f
• Swedish: blindträff c
• Tagalog: sitang ligaw
• Turkish: kör randevu
• Ukrainian: поба́чення нао́сліп n (pobáčennja naóslip)
• Vietnamese: dạm ngõ

See also

• miai, omiai