Like Definition

līk
liked, likes, liking
verb
liked, likes, liking
To please.
Webster's New World
To have a taste or fondness for; be pleased with; have a preference for; enjoy.
Webster's New World
To find pleasant or attractive; enjoy.
Do you like ice cream? I like your style.
American Heritage
To want or wish.
I would like to see him.
Webster's New World
To be so inclined; choose.
Leave whenever you like.
Webster's New World
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noun
likes
Preferences, tastes, or affections.
Webster's New World
One similar to or like another. Used with the .
Was subject to coughs, asthma, and the like.
American Heritage
A person or thing regarded as the equal or counterpart of another or of the person or thing being discussed.
I've never met her like.
Webster's New World
(Internet) The act of showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.
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preposition
Similar to; somewhat resembling.
She is like a bird.
Webster's New World
In a manner characteristic of; similarly to.
She sings like a bird.
Webster's New World
In accord with the nature of; characteristic of.
It's not like her to sleep late.
Webster's New World
In the same way as.
Lived like royalty.
American Heritage
In the mood for; desirous of.
To feel like sleeping.
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adjective
Having almost or exactly the same qualities, characteristics, etc.; similar; equal.
A cup of sugar and a like amount of flour.
Webster's New World
Alike.
Webster's New World
Likely.
Webster's New World

Similar.

My partner and I have like minds.
Wiktionary
Clarendon.
Many were not easy to be governed, nor like to conform themselves to strict rules.
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adverb
In the manner of being; as if. Used as an intensifier of action.
Worked like hell; ran like crazy.
American Heritage
Likely.
Like as not, he is already there.
Webster's New World
Nearly; approximately.
The price is more like 1,000 dollars.
American Heritage
Used to provide emphasis or to focus attention on something.
Let's like talk about this for a minute. It's like so crowded you can't move.
American Heritage
(informal) For example, such as: to introduce an example or list of examples.
There are lots of birds, like ducks and gulls, in this park.
Wiktionary
conjuntion
In the way that; as.
It was just like you said.
Webster's New World
As if.
It looks like we'll finish on time.
American Heritage
As if.
It looks like he is late.
Webster's New World
As if; as though.
It looks like you've finished the project.
It seemed like you didn't care.
Wiktionary
suffix
Resembling or characteristic of.
Ladylike.
American Heritage
interjection
Inserted into spoken sentences before or after a word, phrase, or clause, apparently without meaning or syntactic function, but possibly for emphasis.
It's, like, hot.
Webster's New World
(Liverpudlian, Geordie) Used to place emphasis upon a statement.
Divint ye knaa, like?
Wiktionary
affix
Like, characteristic of, suitable for.
Doglike, manlike, homelike.
Webster's New World
In the manner of.
Coward-like.
Webster's New World
idiom
like it or not
  • No matter how one might feel:

    Like it or not, we have to get up early tomorrow.

American Heritage
be like
  • To say or utter. Used chiefly in oral narration:

    And he's like, “Leave me alone!”

American Heritage
like so
  • In the manner indicated:

    You apply the paint like so.

American Heritage
and the like
  • and so forth; et cetera
Webster's New World
be like
  • to say, think, or feel

    so I'm like, “We have to be there on time,” and he's like all nervous

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Other Word Forms of Like

Noun

Singular:
like
Plural:
likes

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Like

Origin of Like

  • From Middle English liken, from Old English lÄ«cian (“to please, be sufficient"), from Proto-Germanic *lÄ«kōnÄ…, *lÄ«kānÄ… (“to please"), from Proto-Indo-European *lÄ«g- (“image, likeness, similarity"). Cognate with Dutch lijken (“to seem"), German gleichen (“to resemble"), Icelandic líka (“to like"), Norwegian like (“to like"), Albanian ngjaj (“I resemble, I'm alike") from archaic nglâj.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from like similar (from Old English gelīc) (Old Norse līkr) and from like similarly (from Old English gelīce) (from gelīc similar) līk- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English, from Old English Ä¡elÄ«Ä‹ by shortening, influenced by Old Norse líkr. Cognate with alike; more distantly, with lich and -ly.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English liken from Old English līcian to please līk- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English liken to compare from like similar like2

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English from like similar like2

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Like Sentence Examples

  • The people did not like this.

  • He does not like to do anything else.

  • I can't imagine what he was thinking to hide a thing like that from you.

  • Far up in the air was an object that looked like a balloon.

  • I don't like you to talk like that.

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Words Starting With

LLILIK

Words Ending With

EKEIKE

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Words Starting With L and Ending With E

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