alike
UK/əˈlaɪk/
alike adjective: having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
Adjective
alike (comparative more alike, superlative most alike)
- Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
- Twins are physically alike, that is, similar-looking people on the outside.
Adverb
alike (not comparable)
- In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.
- We are all alike concerned in religion.
- As the Knight himself seemed tacitly to disclaim alike interest and controul over the immediate favourite of his lady, young Roland was, by circumstances, exempted from the strict discipline to which, as the retainer of a Scottish man of rank, he would otherwise have been subjected, according to...1820, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and...
- Used after a list of subjects to indicate that something applies equally to all of them.
- The new policy will benefit employees and customers alike.
- In the words of an official report (that might well apply to all the railways): "Public interest in the region of Cuenca is not favourable towards completion of the railway, probably because it has shifted towards the road construction programme now being favoured by the Government and public...1957 December, J. G. Alderson, “By Rail Through the Andes in Ecuador”, in Railway Magazine, page 837
Proper noun capitalized: Alike
Alike
- A village in Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka, India.
alike meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
alike in Tamil
- ஒத்த, போன்ற, போல
alike in Urdu
- alike
- سمان samān
alike in Bengali
- alike, similar, uniform, like to
- সমান śoman, হমান homan
- alike, similar
- অনুযায়ী onujaẏi
alike in Malayalam
- ഒത്ത, സമാനമായ, തുല്യമായ, സദൃശമായ
More languagesFewer languages
- alike in Kannada
- ಹೋಲುವ, ಇದ್ದ್ದಂತೆ, ಬದಲಾವಣೆ ಇಲ್ಲದ
- alike in Punjabi
- ਸਮ sam
- alike in Sanskrit
- सदृश् sadṛ́ś
- alike in Assamese
- একে eke
- alike in Tagalog
- kagaya, katulad
- alike in Thai
- เหมือนกัน mʉ̌ʉan-gan
- alike in Vietnamese
- na ná, giông giống, tương tự, đều
Examples of alike in a sentence
- The wide prospect up stream was grey and lowering, the long still-distant waterfront of Dundee, and the Fife shore were alike colourless, and there was ample evidence of rough weather not far ahead.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 7:
- In small towns and big cities alike, would-be commissars are fighting, in the name of a distinct minority of Americans, to stifle open discussion and impose their views on the community at large.2022 February 18, Jamelle Bouie, “Opinion: You Just Can’t Tell the Truth About America Anymore”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The...
Antonyms of alike
Forms of alike
| comparative | more alike |
|---|---|
| superlative | most alike |
Origin of alike
The adjective comes from a conflation of several different terms: * Middle English alich, alych, alyke, a Late Middle English development from earlier Middle English anlich, anlyke, from Old English onlīċ, anlīċ. Compare German ähnlich. * The borrowed Old Norse cognate of the same word, álíkr, ultimately yielding similar Late Middle English forms. * Middle English ylich, ylych, ilich, ylik, ylike, ȝelic, from Old English ġelīċ (“like; alike; similar; equal”), from Proto-West Germanic *galīk, from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“alike, similar”). Cognate with Scots elyke, alyke (“like, alike”), Saterland Frisian gliek (“like, alike”), West Frisian lyk, gelyk (“like, alike”), Dutch gelijk (“like, alike”), German Low German liek, gliek (“like, alike”), German gleich (“equal, like”), Danish lig (“alike”), Swedish lik (“like, similar”), Norwegian lik (“like, alike”), Icelandic líkur (“alike, like, similar”). Equivalent to a- (Etymology 3) + like. Compare also West Frisian allyk (“all the same, alike”). Similarly, the adverb also comes from a conflation of several different terms: * Middle English aliche, alyche, alyke, a Late Middle English development from earlier Middle English anliche...
Words formed from alike
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Questions about alike
- What does alike mean?
- Alike means having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
- What is alike in Tamil?
- Alike in Tamil is ஒத்த, போன்ற, போல. See Alike meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use alike in a sentence?
- The wide prospect up stream was grey and lowering, the long still-distant waterfront of Dundee, and the Fife shore were alike colourless, and there was ample evidence of rough weather not far ahead.
- What part of speech is alike?
- Alike can be an adjective, an adverb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce alike?
- Alike is pronounced /əˈlaɪk/ (UK).
Words near alike in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: alike (page history and authors); Alike (page history and authors); alike (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); سمان (Urdu) (page history and authors); অনুযায়ী (Bengali) (page history and authors); alike (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); alike (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਸਮ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); सदृश् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); একে (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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