like
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
conj
prep
particle
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Verb from Middle English liken, from Old English līcian (“to like, to please”), from Proto-West Germanic *līkēn, from Proto-Germanic *līkāną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (“image; likeness; similarity”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian liekje (“to be similar, resemble”), West Frisian lykje (“to seem, appear, look”), Dutch lijken (“to seem”), Low German lieken (“to be like; resemble”), German gleichen (“to resemble”), Swedish lika (“to like; put up with; align with”), Norwegian like (“to like”), Icelandic and Faroese líka (“to like”).
Noun from Middle English like (“pleasure, will, like”), from the verb Middle English liken (“to like”).
Inflected forms:
form: likes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: liking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: liked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: liked
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: like
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: like
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: liked
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: like
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: likest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: liked
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: likedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: likes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: liketh
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: liked
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: like
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: liked
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: like
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: liked
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: like
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: liking
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: liked
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lak
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: likes
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lak
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more like
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most like
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: lak
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: lak
pos: conj
tags: alternative
form: lak
pos: prep
tags: alternative
form: lak
pos: particle
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
pos: verb
examples: I like reading books.
I very much like hamburgers.
I like skiing in winter very much.
I like the Seattle Mariners this season.
I like it when you sing.
He may either go or stay, as he best likes.
“I can tell you more than that, if you like,” said the Gryphon. “Do you know why it’s called a whiting?”
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.
gloss: To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: I willingly confess that it likes me much better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favoured creature.
His countenance likes me not.
gloss: To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: And therefore it is the best way, if you like of it, to examine these taken from experiments touching the Earth, and then proceed to those of the other kind.
He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
gloss: To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
People in Washington like to work out!
gloss: To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.
pos: verb
examples: I really like Sandra but don't know how to tell her.
― Enju: “Apparently when you like someone, you start talking like them.”
I was dating someone I liked, but not enough to marry.
gloss: To want, desire. See also would like.
pos: verb
examples: Would you like a cigarette?
We could go to the museum if you like.
May I leave now? ~ If you like.
I don't like to disturb him when he's working.
gloss: To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
examples: 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.
What' up, y'all? I'm the last man on Earth. Shit's all fucked up. Don't forget to like and subscribe. We out here.
gloss: Of inanimate objects:
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: Too bad this cheese likes to stick to the pan and ruin the whole meal.
gloss: Of inanimate objects:
pos: verb
tags: informal
examples: This self-service checkout doesn't seem to like my credit card.
We were frustrated that our seeming innocent choice for a team name was rejected by the game. Apparently somewhere in the name is a word that the algorithm doesn’t like.
email delivery failed: remote host does not like recipient
gloss: To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: He liked to have been too late.
He probably got his death, as he liked to have done two years ago, by viewing the troops for the expedition from the wall of Kensington Garden.
gloss: To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: You like well, and bear your years very well.
gloss: To liken; to compare.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: And like me to the peasant boys of France.
gloss: Something that a person likes (prefers).
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
examples: Tell me your likes and dislikes.
gloss: An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows.
Dress for myself, I don't dress for hype / I dress for myself, you dress for the likes
Likes are the social media currency undergirding an entire influencer economy, inspiring a million Kardashian wannabes and giving many of us regular people daily endorphin hits.
gloss: Similar.
pos: adj
examples: My partner and I have like minds.
The two cats were as like as though they had come from the same litter.
This apology was made after Hunt's death, and mentioned a revision of the first sketch, so as to render it less like, at the suggestion of two other friends of Hunt. The friends were Procter (Barry Cornwall) and myself; the feeling having been mine from the first that the likeness was too like.
It will seem strange that in all this time the Presbytery was idle, and no effort was made to rid the place of so fell an influence. But there was a reason, and the reason, as in most like cases, was a lassie.
[…]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.
I opened the man's linen robe, and there over his heart was a dagger-wound, and beneath the woman's fair breast was a like cruel stab, through which her life had ebbed away.
gloss: Likely; probable.
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
Southern-US
examples: But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices.
Many were […] not easy to be govern'd, nor like to conform themselves to such strict rules.
Finding it was like to overblow, we took in our Sprit-ſail, and ſtood by to hand the Fore-ſail; but making foul Weather, we look'd the Guns were all faſt, and handed the Miſſen.
She had waited overlong, and now it was like that Ailie would escape her toils.
gloss: inclined (to), prone (to).
pos: adj
tags: Scotland
Southern-US
usually
examples: He seems like to run from any semblance of hard work.
gloss: As, the way.
pos: conj
tags: colloquial
examples: 1966, Advertising slogan for Winston cigarettes
Winston tastes good like a cigarette should
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
gloss: As if; as though; such as.
pos: conj
tags: colloquial
usually
examples: It looks like you've finished the project.
It seemed like you didn't care.
Why don’t we do something useful like clean the kitchen?
He didn’t have many friends, it didn’t seem like.
A too skinny white girl, dressed like some kind of teen-ager although she had to be thirty, with one of those fake white-girl smiles stuck on her face like with scotch tape.
gloss: Similar to, reminiscent of.
pos: prep
examples: Folk like that I just can’t brook.
I’m very like my father.
Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.
She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him.[…]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.
Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
gloss: Typical of.
pos: prep
examples: It would be just like Achilles to be sulking in his tent.
gloss: Approximating.
pos: prep
examples: Popcorn costs something like 10 dollars at the movies.
gloss: In the manner of, similarly to.
pos: prep
examples: He doesn't act like a president.
gloss: Such as; including.
pos: prep
examples: It's for websites like Wikipedia.
In Mars's office, near his own impressive executive desk (a Vladimir Kagan), hangs a mixed media artwork depicting legendary MCs like Queen Latifah, Slick Rick, Rakim, and Nas (a business partner of Mars's).
gloss: As if there would be.
pos: prep
examples: It looks like a hot summer in Europe.
gloss: Used to ask for a description or opinion of someone or something.
pos: prep
examples: I hear she has a new boyfriend. What's he like? –He's intelligent and handsome.
What’s the weather like in Ürümqi today?
What does your mom look like? –She's pretty.
gloss: A delayed filler.
pos: particle
tags: Geordie
Ireland
Scotland
Teesside
colloquial
examples: He was so angry, like.
gloss: Indicating approximation or uncertainty.
pos: particle
tags: colloquial
examples: There were, like, twenty of them.
[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!
"She's like brand new."
gloss: Used to precede an approximate quotation or paraphrase or an expression of something that happened.
pos: particle
tags: colloquial
examples: I was like, “Why did you do that?” and he's like, “I don't know.”
A customer walked in like, "I demand to see the manager!"
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."
'It made this sky ripping noise, and then went like “bang”, real hard into the ground. A long way away but.'
gloss: a discourse marker used to highlight or put focus on new information or a new development in a story
pos: particle
tags: colloquial
examples: She was, like, sooooo happy.
And then he, like, got all angry and left the room.
Synonyms: be all
go
Antonyms: unlike
Derived words: as you like
belike
beliked
forelike
I'd like to know
if you like
I like that
I like turtles
I'm in this photo and I don't like it
likable
likeability
likeable
likeful
like it or leave it
like it or lump it
like it or not
likejacking
like like
liker
likesome
likeworthy
mislike
semilike
unlikable
unlike
well-liking
would like
like farm
alike
as like as not
done like a dinner
it was like this
liddat
likam
-like
like a headless chook
like breaking sticks
like candy
like-cultured
like fudge
like-gendered
like-minded
like-mindedness
likeness
like-positioned
like real
likewise
like you can talk
likish
suchlike
they don't make them like that anymore
walk it like one talks it
be like
feel like
look like
make like
like a plasterer's radio
like there were no tomorrow
seem like
sound like
bend it like Beckham
do someone like that
just like that
like a big dog
like fits
like nobody else
like smack
like the wrath of God
something like
something like that
stink like a mackerel in the moonlight
stink like a mackerel in the sun
there's no place like home
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: hou van
lang: Ainu
word: エラマス
roman: eramas
lang: Albanian
word: pëlqej
lang: Albanian
word: shishmoj
lang: Southern Altai
word: јараар
roman: ǰaraar
lang: Southern Altai
word: сӱӱр
roman: süür
lang: Arabic
word: حَبَّ
roman: ḥabba
lang: Arabic
word: أَحَبَّ
roman: ʔaḥabba
lang: Arabic
word: اِسْتَمْطَعَ
roman: istamṭaʕa
lang: Arabic
word: أَعْجَبَ
roman: ʔaʕjaba
lang: Arabic
word: حب
roman: ḥabb
lang: Armenian
word: սիրել
roman: sirel
lang: Aromanian
word: plac
lang: Aromanian
word: arisescu
lang: Asturian
word: prestar
lang: Azerbaijani
word: bəyənmək
lang: Azerbaijani
word: xoşlamaq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: xoşu gəlmək
lang: Azerbaijani
word: xoşuna gəlmək
lang: Basque
word: gustatu
lang: Belarusian
word: падаба́цца
roman: padabácca
lang: Belarusian
word: любі́ць
roman: ljubícʹ
lang: Bengali
word: পছন্দ করা
roman: pochondo kora
lang: Breton
word: karout
lang: Bulgarian
word: харе́свам
roman: harésvam
lang: Bulgarian
word: харе́сам
roman: harésam
lang: Burmese
word: ကြိုက်
roman: kruik
lang: Catalan
word: agradar
lang: Cebuano
word: buot
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 喜歡 /喜欢
roman: hei² fun¹
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 鍾意 /钟意
roman: zung¹ ji³
lang: Chinese
word: щихуан
roman: xihuan
lang: Chinese
word: хуанщи
roman: huanxi
lang: Chinese
word: 佮意
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 喜歡 /喜欢
roman: xǐhuan
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: hwandza
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: upvendza
lang: Cornish
word: kara
lang: Cornish
word: bos da gans
lang: Czech
word: mít rád
lang: Czech
word: líbit se
lang: Danish
word: kunne lide
lang: Danish
word: synes om
lang: Dutch
word: houden van
lang: Dutch
word: graag hebben
lang: Dutch
word: lusten
lang: Dutch
word: graag
lang: Dutch
word: leuk vinden
lang: Esperanto
word: plaĉi al
lang: Esperanto
word: ŝati
lang: Esperanto
word: ami
lang: Estonian
word: meeldima
lang: Faroese
word: dáma
lang: Faroese
word: hóva
lang: Faroese
word: líka
lang: Faroese
word: falla
lang: Finnish
word: pitää
lang: Finnish
word: tykätä
lang: Finnish
word: nauttia
lang: French
word: aimer
lang: French
word: plaire (à)
lang: French
word: bien aimer
lang: Galician
word: gustar
lang: Georgian
word: მოსწონს
roman: mosc̣ons
lang: German
word: mögen
lang: German
word: gern haben
lang: German
word: gefallen
lang: German
word: gern
lang: Greek
word: αρέσει
roman: arései
lang: Greek
word: αρέσκομαι
roman: aréskomai
lang: Greek
word: προτιμώ
roman: protimó
lang: Greek
word: αγαπώ
roman: agapó
lang: Ancient Greek
word: φιλέω
roman: philéō
lang: Gujarati
word: ગમવું
roman: gamvũ
lang: Hebrew
word: אָהַב
roman: aháv
lang: Hindi
word: पसंद करना
roman: pasand karnā
lang: Hindi
word: पसंद होना
roman: pasand honā
lang: Hungarian
word: szeret
lang: Hungarian
word: kedvel
lang: Hungarian
word: tetszik
lang: Hungarian
word: ínyére van
lang: Icelandic
word: líka
lang: Ido
word: prizar
lang: Indonesian
word: suka
lang: Interlingua
word: amar
lang: Interlingua
word: fruer
lang: Irish
word: is maith le
lang: Italian
word: piacere a
lang: Japanese
word: …が好き
roman: ... ga suki
lang: Japanese
word: 好む
roman: konomu
lang: Kazakh
word: ұнату
roman: ūnatu
lang: Kazakh
word: жарату
roman: jaratu
lang: Khmer
word: ចូលចិត្ត
roman: coul cət
lang: Khmer
word: ចំណូល
roman: cɑmnoul
lang: Khmer
word: ឆប
roman: chɑɑp
lang: Korean
word: 좋아하다
roman: joahada
lang: Kumyk
word: хошуна гелмек
roman: xoşuna gelmek
lang: Kumyk
word: гёнгюне гирмек
roman: göñüne girmek
lang: Kumyk
word: ушатмакъ
roman: uşatmaq
lang: Kumyk
word: ушатдырмакъ
roman: uşatdırmaq
lang: Kumyk
word: ушатылмакъ
roman: uşatılmaq
lang: Kumyk
word: ярамакъ
roman: yaramaq
lang: Kumyk
word: арив гёрмек
roman: ariw görmek
lang: Kumyk
word: кепине гелмек
roman: kepine gelmek
lang: Central Kurdish
word: پێخۆشبوون
roman: pêxoşbûn
lang: Central Kurdish
word: حەزلێبوون
roman: ḧezlêbûn
lang: Kyrgyz
word: жактыруу
roman: jaktıruu
lang: Kyrgyz
word: жароо
roman: jaroo
lang: Lao
word: ມັກ
roman: mak
lang: Lao
word: ຊອບ
roman: sǭp
lang: Latin
word: amō
lang: Latin
word: placeo
lang: Latin
word: libet
lang: Latin
word: dīligō
lang: Latin
word: probō
lang: Latin
word: approbō
lang: Latin
word: fruor
lang: Latvian
word: patikt
lang: Lithuanian
word: patikti
lang: Low German
word: geernhebben
lang: Low German
word: leefhebben
lang: Low German
word: mögen
lang: Lü
word: ᦠᦳᧄ
roman: ḣum
lang: Macedonian
word: се допаѓа
roman: se dopaǵa
lang: Macedonian
word: се допадне
roman: se dopadne
lang: Malay
word: suka
lang: Manx
word: s'laik lesh
lang: Manx
word: s'mie lesh
lang: Māori
word: matareka
lang: Mongolian
word: дурлах
roman: durlax
lang: Mongolian
word: дуртай байх
roman: durtaj bajx
lang: Mongolian
word: дуртай
roman: durtaj
lang: Neapolitan
word: piacé a
lang: Nepali
word: मन पराउनु
roman: man parāunu
lang: Nepali
word: राम्रो लाग्नु
roman: rāmro lāgnu
lang: Norman
word: aimer
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: like
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: synes om
lang: Occitan
word: agradar
lang: Old English
word: līcian
lang: Persian
word: دوسْت دَاشْتَن
roman: dōst dāštan
lang: Persian
word: اَز ... خْوَش آمَدَن
roman: az ... xwaš āmadan
lang: Iranian Persian
word: دوسْت داشْتَن
roman: dust dâštan
lang: Iranian Persian
word: اَز ... خوش... آمَدَن
roman: az ... xoš âmadan
lang: Plautdietsch
word: jleichen
lang: Polish
word: lubić
lang: Polish
word: podobać się
lang: Portuguese
word: gostar
lang: Romanian
word: plăcea
lang: Russian
word: нра́виться
roman: nrávitʹsja
lang: Russian
word: люби́ть
roman: ljubítʹ
lang: Northern Sami
word: liikot
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: is toil le
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: is caomh le
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: во̀лети
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: во̀љети
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: љу́бити
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сви́ђати се
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vòleti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: vòljeti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ljúbiti
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: svíđati se
lang: Slovak
word: mať rád
lang: Slovak
word: mať rada
lang: Slovak
word: páčiť sa
lang: Slovak
word: ľúbiť sa
lang: Slovene
word: imeti rad
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: spódobaś se
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: zespódobaś se
lang: Spanish
word: gustar
lang: Spanish
word: disfrutar
lang: Spanish
word: gozar
lang: Spanish
word: fruir
lang: Spanish
word: amar
lang: Swahili
word: kupenda
lang: Swedish
word: tycka om
lang: Swedish
word: gilla
lang: Tagalog
word: magustuhan
lang: Tajik
word: дуст доштан
roman: dust doštan
lang: Tamil
word: விருப்பம்
roman: viruppam
lang: Tày
word: ái
lang: Telugu
word: ఇస్టపడు
roman: isṭapaḍu
lang: Thai
word: ชอบ
roman: chɔ̂ɔp
lang: Northern Thai
word: ᨾᩢ᩠ᨠ
roman: mak
lang: Northern Thai
word: ᩉᩩᨾ
roman: hum
lang: Northern Thai
word: ᨪᩬᨷ
roman: sop
lang: Tibetan
word: དགའ་བོ
roman: dga' bo
lang: Tibetan
word: དགའ་བོ་བྱེད
roman: dga' bo byed
lang: Tibetan
word: མཉེས་པོ
roman: mnyes po
lang: Tibetan
word: མཉེས་པོ་གནང
roman: mnyes po gnang
lang: Tsou
word: kaebʉ
lang: Turkish
word: hoşlanmak
lang: Turkish
word: sevmek
lang: Turkish
word: beğenmek
lang: Turkish
word: hoşuna gitmek
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بگنمك
roman: beğenmek
lang: Ukrainian
word: подо́батися
roman: podóbatysja
lang: Ukrainian
word: люби́ти
roman: ljubýty
lang: Urdu
word: پَسَنْد ہونا
roman: pasand honā
lang: Uyghur
word: ياخشى كۆرمەك
roman: yaxshi körmek
lang: Uzbek
word: yoqtirmoq
lang: Vietnamese
word: thích
lang: Volapük
word: löfilön
lang: Volapük
word: plidön
lang: Welsh
word: hoffi
lang: Welsh
word: leicio
lang: Yiddish
word: געפֿעלן
roman: gefeln
lang: Zazaki
word: sinayen
lang: Zazaki
word: weş şiyen
lang: Zazaki
word: rıdiyen