alike
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: 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, anlyke, from Old English onlīċe, anlīċe.
* Additionally Middle English oliche, olike, ultimately from the Old Norse cognate of the same word, álíka.
* Middle English yliche, ylyche, iliche, ylike, ȝelice, from Old English ġelīċe (“alike, similarly”).
Base: like
Affixes: a-#Etymology 3
Inflected forms:
form: more alike
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most alike
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more alike
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most alike
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
pos: adj
examples: Twins are physically alike, that is, similar-looking people on the outside.
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.
gloss: In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.
pos: adv
examples: 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 all the rigour of the age.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.
gloss: In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.
pos: adv
examples: 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 alike."
There is a dangerous censoriousness pulsing through American society. 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. Dissenters, when they speak out, are hounded, ostracized and sometimes even forced from their jobs.
Antonyms: unlike
Derived words: share and share alike
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: yhtä
lang: Finnish
word: yhtäläisesti
lang: French
word: pareillement
lang: German
word: gleichermaßen
lang: German
word: gleich
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὁμῶς
roman: homôs
lang: Hungarian
word: egyaránt
lang: Hungarian
word: egyformán
lang: Hungarian
word: hasonlóképpen
lang: Irish
word: mar an gcéanna
lang: Italian
word: similmente
lang: Italian
word: ugualmente
lang: Portuguese
word: igualmente
lang: Portuguese
word: similarmente
lang: Russian
word: одина́ково
roman: odinákovo
lang: Russian
word: подо́бно
roman: podóbno
lang: Russian
word: похо́же
roman: poxóže
lang: Russian
word: то́чно та́к же
roman: tóčno ták že
lang: Spanish
word: igualmente
lang: Spanish
word: similarmente
lang: Spanish
word: de la misma manera
lang: Spanish
word: por igual
lang: Vietnamese
word: đều