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something like

something like adverb: approximately.

Adverb

something like (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) approximately
    • And it’s daunting because each segment has to tell a full, complete story in something like six minutes while doing justice to revered source material and including the non-stop laughs and genius gags that characterized The Simpsons in its god-like prime.2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Phrase

something like

  1. (dated, informal) A fine example or specimen of something.
    • When they had done, she gave Ashiepattle a whistle, and told him how to use it. If he blew into the one end of it, everything which he wished far away would be scattered to all sides, but if he blew into the other end it would all come together again; and if the whistle were lost or was taken from...1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 173
    • "I say!" exclaimed Scrubb. "That's something like! Think of sleeping in a bed again."1953, C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair

something like meaning in Bengali

something like in Bengali

আনুমানিক

Questions about something like

What does something like mean?
Something like means approximately.
What is something like in Bengali?
Something like in Bengali is আনুমানিক. See Something like meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is something like?
Something like can be an adverb or a phrase.

Words near something like in the dictionary

  1. something good
  2. something is better than nothing
  3. something is rotten in Denmark
  4. something is rotten in the state of Denmark
  5. something is up
  6. something like
  7. something like that
  8. something nasty in the woodshed
  9. something or another
  10. something or other
  11. something or the other

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: something like (page history and authors); something like (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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