Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having close resemblance; similar: The twins are as alike as two peas in a pod. Friends are generally alike in background and tastes.
- adv. In the same manner or to the same degree: They dress and walk alike.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having resemblance or similitude; similar; having or exhibiting no marked or essential difference. Alike is now only archaically used attributively, and is regularly predicated of a plural subject. It was also formerly used in phrases where the modern idiom requires like. See
like . - In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; both.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
- adv. In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Now used only predicatively. Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
- adv. In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.
WordNet 3.0
Etymologies
- From Old English ġelīċ, reinforced by Old Norse álíkr. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English alich (influenced by Old Norse ālīkr), blend of ilich (from Old English gelīc) and anlich (from Old English onlīc); see līk- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Nor is the failure of the pursuit wholly to be ascribed to the familiar fact that to Caucasian eyes all Chinamen look alike, but rather to their acting alike, in a body, to defeat discovery at any cost.”
“Thanks to this many-sided usage, together with its religious colouring (“the church called by God”) and the possibilities of personification which it offered, the conception and the term alike rapidly came to the front.”
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“I was with the president of a Penn State campus in China, his closest celebrity look-alike is Bill Cosby, when we were in tourist areas people would pull on him in the exact same way they do on the characters in Disneyworld.”
“Thus America has responded to the enormous challenges the economy faces in the short-term and long-term alike with a complete failure of vision and verve.”
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“But since we are tallying “extermination/expulsion of subhuman populations”, one group that somehow that always ignored by so many ‘loving, compassionate’Zoinest Christians and Zionists alike is the Christians of Palestine whose luck was not much better than the Muslim of Palestine either.”
“A big attraction for Mexican and foreign tourists alike is the usually benign weather, at an elevation of 1,245 feet, which in the winter offers cool evenings and pleasant days.”
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“A great new item, sure to please comics fans and collectors alike is the Mignola-inspired, Hellboy figure packaged with a new hardcover digest-size edition of Seed of Destruction that features an all-new cover by Mike Mignola!”
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“I think the best way for Jews and Arabs alike, is through a cooperative dismantling of the Apartheid system.”
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“I realized that one of the ways we can truly understand the agony and several abuses on the Vagina by men and women alike is to see through the eyes of a Vagina.”
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“Hunting, humans and aliens alike, is a way of life for these horrific beings.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘alike’.
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When a door is ajar
Words with the prefix "a"
ajar, asleep, akin, ablaze, afoot, abed, aground, aback, afloat, alive, abaft, abloom and 91 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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The Old English Influence
Modern English words impacted by and descended from Old English.
a, aback, abaft, abide, about, above, abode, accursed, accurst, ache, acknowledge, acorn and 109 more...
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TN5 Lesson 56
traveled, Maine, have been to, not at all, different, ski, resort, Switzerland, southern, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky and 22 more...
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Weekly list(22-29/08/2010)
littering, to litter, attain, coherently, evolve, fundemental, illustrate, imply, portion, commute, alike, bunk and 11 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for alike.
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