like
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Like
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see also: Like
Pronunciation Verb
like (likes, present participle liking; past and past participle liked)
- To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
- Antonyms: dislike, hate, mislike
- I like hamburgers.
- I like skiing in winter.
- I like the Seattle Mariners this season.
- 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 2, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242 ↗, book I, page 21 ↗:
- He may either go or stay, as he best likes.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
- At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
- (transitive, archaic) To please.
- (obsolete) To derive pleasure of, by or with someone or something.
- To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.
- I like to go to the dentist every six months.
- She likes to keep herself physically fit.
- we like to keep one around the office just in case.
- (obsolete) To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition).
- c. 1598–1600, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene iv]:
- You like well, and bear your years very well.
- (archaic) To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly.
- He liked to have been too late.
- To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.
- Synonyms: fancy, enjoy, love
- Antonyms: dislike, hate, mislike
- I really like Sandra but don't know how to tell her.
- (obsolete) To liken; to compare.
- (Internet, transitive) To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.
- Antonyms: unlike
- I liked my friend's last status on Facebook.
- I can't stand Bloggs' tomato ketchup, but I liked it on Facebook so I could enter a competition.
- (with 'would' and in certain other phrases) To want, desire. See also would like.
- Would you like a cigarette?
- We could go to the museum if you like.
Conjugation of like
infinitive | (to) like | ||
---|---|---|---|
present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | like | liked | |
2nd-person singular | likest* | liked, likedst#English|likedst* | |
3rd-person singular | likes, liketh* | liked#English|liked | |
plural | like | ||
subjunctive | like | ||
imperative | like | — | |
participle> participles | liking | liked | |
* Archaic or obsolete. |
- French: aimer, plaire (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb), bien aimer
- German: mögen, gern haben, gefallen (intransitive, the person who likes is the object of the verb in the dative case)
- Italian: piacere (with subject and object reversed)
- Portuguese: gostar
- Russian: нра́виться
- Spanish: gustar (with subject and object reversed)
- French: plaire (intransitive) (with subject and object reversed)
- German: mögen, gern haben, gefallen + dat (with subject and object reversed)
- Italian: piacere
- Portuguese: gostar
- Russian: нра́виться
- Spanish: gustar (with subject and object reversed)
like (plural likes)
- (usually, in the plural) Something that a person likes (prefers).
- Synonyms: favorite, preference
- Antonyms: dislike, pet hate, pet peeve
- Tell me your likes and dislikes.
- (internet) An individual vote showing support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet.
- French: préférence
- German: Vorliebe
- Italian: preferenza
- Portuguese: gosto
- Spanish: gustos, preferencias, predilecciones, filias
- German: Like
- Russian: лайк
like
- Similar.
- My partner and I have like minds.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (book), book 2, ch. 3, Landlord Edmund
- […] and this is not a sky, it is a Soul and living Face! Nothing liker the Temple of the Highest, bright with some real effulgence of the Highest, is seen in this world.
- (obsolete) Likely; probable.
- But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices.
- Many were not easy to be governed, nor like to conform themselves to strict rules.
- French: pareil
- German: gleich
- Italian: simile
- Portuguese: semelhante
- Russian: похо́жий
- Spanish: semejante, similar
like
- (obsolete, colloquial) Likely.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 3
- DON PEDRO. May be she doth but counterfeit.
- CLAUDIO. Faith, like enough. [= Indeed, quite likely.]
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 3
- (archaic or rare) In a like or similar manner.
- Bible, Psalms ciii. 13
- Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
- Bible, Psalms ciii. 13
like (plural likes)
(sometimes as the likes of) Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort. , Winston Churchill on T.E. Lawrence - We shall never see his like again.
- There were bowls full of sweets, chocolates and the like.
- It was something the likes of which I had never seen before.
- (golf) The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.
- to play the like
- German: meinesgleichen, deinesgleichen, seinesgleichen (his/its like), euresgleichen, unseresgleichen, ihresgleichen
- Portuguese: tipo
- (colloquial) As, the way.
- 1966, Advertising slogan for Winston cigarettes
- Winston tastes good like a cigarette should
- 1978, "Do Unto Others" by Bob Dylan
- But if you do right to me, baby
- I’ll do right to you, too
- Ya got to do unto others
- Like you’d have them, like you’d have them, do unto you
- 1966, Advertising slogan for Winston cigarettes
- As if; as though.
- It looks like you've finished the project.
- It seemed like you didn't care.
- Similar to, reminiscent of.
- Typical of
- It would be just like Achilles to be sulking in his tent.
- Approximating
- Popcorn costs something like $10 dollars at the movies.
- In the manner of, similarly to.
- He doesn't act like a president.
- Such as
- It's for websites like Wikipedia.
- As if there would be.
- It looks like a hot summer in Europe.
- (such as) for example, such as, (archaic) as
- (colloquial, Scotland, Geordie, Teesside, Scouse) A delayed filler.
- He was so angry, like.
- (colloquial) A mild intensifier.
- She was, like, sooooo happy.
- 1972, Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts, December 1:
- [Sally Brown:] Christmas is getting all you can get while the getting is good.
[Charlie Brown:] GIVING! The only real joy is GIVING!
[Sally Brown, rolling her eyes:] Like, wow!
- [Sally Brown:] Christmas is getting all you can get while the getting is good.
- (colloquial) indicating approximation or uncertainty
- There were, like, twenty of them.
- And then he, like, got all angry and left the room.
- (colloquial, slang) When preceded by any form of the verb to be, used to mean “to say” or “to think”; used to precede an approximate quotation or paraphrase.
- I was like, “Why did you do that?” and he's like, “I don't know.”
- 2006, Lily Allen, Knock 'Em Out
- You're just doing your own thing and some one comes out the blue,
- They're like, "Alright"
- What ya saying, "Yeah can I take your digits?"
- And you're like, "no not in a million years, you're nasty please leave me alone."
- (delayed filler) I mean, you know
- (mild intensifier) I mean, well, you know
- (indicating approximation or uncertainty) I mean, well, you know
- (colloquial: used to precede paraphrased quotations) be all, go
- (Liverpool, Geordie) Used to place emphasis upon a statement.
- Divint ye knaa, like?
like (likes, present participle liking; past and past participle liked)
- (chiefly dialectal, intransitive) To be likely.
Like
Proper noun
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