like

Etymology 1
Verb from, from , from , from , from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun from, from the verb.

Verb

 * 1) To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.
 * 2)  To please.
 * 3)  To derive pleasure of, by or with someone or something.
 * 4) To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.
 * 5)  To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition).
 * 6)  To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly.
 * 7) To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.
 * 8)  To liken; to compare.
 * 9)   To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.
 * 10)  To want, desire. See also would like.
 * 11)  To be prone to.
 * 12)  Of a computer or other system: to tolerate as an input; to accept.
 * 1) To prefer and maintain (an action) as a regular habit or activity.
 * 2)  To have an appearance or expression; to look; to seem to be (in a specified condition).
 * 3)  To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly.
 * 4) To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.
 * 5)  To liken; to compare.
 * 6)   To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.
 * 7)  To want, desire. See also would like.
 * 8)  To be prone to.
 * 9)  Of a computer or other system: to tolerate as an input; to accept.
 * 1)  To come near; to avoid with difficulty; to escape narrowly.
 * 2) To find attractive; to prefer the company of; to have mild romantic feelings for.
 * 3)  To liken; to compare.
 * 4)   To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.
 * 5)  To want, desire. See also would like.
 * 6)  To be prone to.
 * 7)  Of a computer or other system: to tolerate as an input; to accept.
 * 1)  To liken; to compare.
 * 2)   To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.
 * 3)  To want, desire. See also would like.
 * 4)  To be prone to.
 * 5)  Of a computer or other system: to tolerate as an input; to accept.
 * 1)  To want, desire. See also would like.
 * 2)  To be prone to.
 * 3)  Of a computer or other system: to tolerate as an input; to accept.
 * 1)  To want, desire. See also would like.
 * 2)  To be prone to.
 * 3)  Of a computer or other system: to tolerate as an input; to accept.
 * 1)  To be prone to.
 * 2)  Of a computer or other system: to tolerate as an input; to accept.
 * 1)  To be prone to.
 * 2)  Of a computer or other system: to tolerate as an input; to accept.
 * 1)  To be prone to.
 * 2)  Of a computer or other system: to tolerate as an input; to accept.
 * 1)  Of a computer or other system: to tolerate as an input; to accept.

Usage notes

 * In its senses of “enjoy” and “maintain as a regular habit”, is a catenative verb; in the former, it usually takes a gerund ( form), while in the latter, it takes a -infinitive. See also Appendix:English catenative verbs.
 * Like is only used to mean “want” in certain expressions, such as “if you like” and “I would like”. The conditional form,, is used quite freely as a polite synonym for.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: hou van
 * Ainu: エラマス
 * Albanian:
 * American Sign Language: Open8@NearChest-PalmBack 8@FromChest-PalmBack
 * Arabic:, , اِسْتَمْطَعَ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: حب
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: plac, arisescu
 * Asturian: prestar
 * Azerbaijani:, , , xoşuna gəlmək
 * Basque: gustatu
 * Belarusian:, любі́ць
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: buot
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 喜歡 ,
 * Dungan: щихуан, хуанщи
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: kara, bos da gans
 * Czech:, líbit
 * Danish: kunne lide, synes om
 * Dutch:, , ,  ,
 * Esperanto: plaĉi, ,
 * Estonian: meeldima
 * Faroese: dáma, hóva , líka ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, , bien aimer
 * Galician: gustar
 * Georgian: მოსწონს
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:, , ,
 * Ancient: φιλέω
 * Gujarati: ગમવું
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: पसंद करना, पसंद होना
 * Hungarian:, , , ínyére van
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua:, fruer
 * Irish: is maith le
 * Isan:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: ұнату, жарату
 * Khmer: ចូលចិត្ត, ,
 * Korean:
 * Kumyk: хошуна гелмек, гёнгюне гирмек, ушатмакъ, ушатдырмакъ, ушатылмакъ, ярамакъ, арив гёрмек, кепине гелмек
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:, حەزلێبوون
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ມັກ, ຊອບ
 * Latin:, dīligō, , , , fruor
 * Latvian: patikt
 * Lithuanian: patikti
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: geernhebben, leefhebben,
 * Lü: ᦠᦳᧄ
 * Macedonian: се допаѓа, се допадне
 * Malay:
 * Manx: s'laik lesh, s'mie lesh
 * Maori: matareka
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, дуртай байх, дуртай
 * Neapolitan: piacé a
 * Nepali: ,
 * Ngazidja Comorian: andza, pvendza
 * Norman: aimer
 * Northern Sami: liikot
 * Northern Thai: ᨾᩢ᩠ᨠ, ᩉᩩᨾ, ᨪᩬᨷ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, synes om
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: līcian
 * Ottoman Turkish: بگنمك
 * Persian:
 * Classical Persian: ,
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: jleichen
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:  (e.g. мне нра́вится (mne nrávitsja) + nominative case - I like + object),
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: во̀лети, во̀љети, љу́бити, свиђати
 * Roman:, , ,
 * Shan:
 * Slovak: mať rád, mať rada, páčiť, ľúbiť
 * Slovene: imeti rad
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: spódobaś, zespódobaś
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kupenda
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: magustohan
 * Tajik: дуст доштан
 * Tamil:
 * Tày: ái
 * Telugu: ఇస్టపడు
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: དགའ་བོ, དགའ་བོ་བྱེད, མཉེས་པོ, མཉེས་པོ་གནང , all above + indirect object: ལ་དོན (oblique/dative-locative case) (ལ/ལ|-ར)
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: подо́батися ,
 * Urdu: پَسَنْد ہونا
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: ,
 * Welsh:, leicio
 * Yiddish: געפֿעלן
 * Zazaki: sinayen, weş şiyen, rıdiyen
 * Zhuang:


 * Afrikaans: hou van
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: դուր գալ ,
 * Asturian: gustar
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 喜歡 ,
 * Dungan:
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:, líbit se
 * Dutch: graag hebben, graag zien, zich aangetrokken voelen tot, leuk vinden
 * Esperanto: plaĉi, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: gostar
 * Georgian: მოსწონს, ეტრფის, თვალში მოსდის
 * German:, , + dat
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: חיבב,
 * Hindi: पसंद होना
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: حەزلێکردن‌
 * Malay:
 * Mongolian:
 * Northern Sami: liikot
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, synes om
 * Polish: podobać się, nawidzieć się
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovene: všeč
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tày: ái
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: དགའ་བོ, དགའ་བོ་བྱེད, མཉེས་པོ, མཉེས་པོ་གནང , མོས་པོ་བྱེད, སེམས་པ་ཤོར , ཆགས , འཁོར , all above + indirect object: ལ་དོན (oblique/dative-locative case) (ལ/ལ|-ར)
 * Turkish:, , hoşuna gitmek,
 * Urdu: پَسَنْد ہونا
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: serchu
 * Zazaki: weş şiyayen, rıdyayen


 * Armenian:, լայքել
 * Azerbaijani:, layk düyməsinə basmaq
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:, ŝatalklaki, ŝatmarki, ŝatbutono
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian: მოსწონს, ალაიქებს
 * German:
 * Greek: λαϊκάρω, βάζω λάικ
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, læka
 * Japanese: いいね！する
 * Korean: 좋아요하다
 * Polish:, dać lajka
 * Portuguese:, dar like
 * Romanian:, da like
 * Russian: ста́вить лайк, поста́вить лайк, ,
 * Spanish: likear, dar like, poner me gusta
 * Swedish:, lajka
 * Zazaki: like kerden


 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:, ,  ,
 * Northern Sami: sihtat

Noun

 * 1)  Something that a person likes (prefers).
 * 2)   An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.
 * 1)   An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.
 * 1)   An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.
 * 1)   An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: prefero
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Malay:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Telugu:


 * Belarusian: падаба́йка, лайк
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, mention « j'aime »
 * Georgian: მოწონება, ლაიქი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: is maith liom
 * Italian: mi piace,
 * Japanese:, イイネ
 * Korean: 좋아요
 * Persian:
 * Polish: lajk
 * Portuguese:, , curtida,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Swedish: gilla-markering,, , ,
 * Ukrainian: вподоба́йка, лайк

Etymology 2
Adjective from, , , , from by shortening, influenced by , ; both from. Related to ; more distantly, with and. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 🇨🇬

Adverb from, , , , from and ; both from , from.

Conjunction from, , , , from the adverb.

Preposition from, , , , , , from and.

Adjective

 * 1) Similar.
 * 2)  Likely; probable.
 * 3) * 1668,, The Messiah's Sufferings for the Sins of the People (sermon, March 20, 1668)
 * But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices.
 * 1)  inclined (to), prone (to).
 * 1)  Likely; probable.
 * 2) * 1668,, The Messiah's Sufferings for the Sins of the People (sermon, March 20, 1668)
 * But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices.
 * 1)  inclined (to), prone (to).
 * 1)  inclined (to), prone (to).
 * 1)  inclined (to), prone (to).
 * 1)  inclined (to), prone (to).
 * 1)  inclined (to), prone (to).

Translations

 * Adyghe: фэд
 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic:
 * Algerian Arabic: كيما
 * Hijazi Arabic: زَيّ
 * South Levantine Arabic: زي, متل
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: asemeyáu, aparente, ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:, simila
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃
 * Greek:, ,
 * Ancient: ὅμοιος, ἴδιος
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kabardian: хуэд
 * Korean:
 * Latin:
 * Malay:, macam, seperti
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: ,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: འདྲ་པོ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: поді́бний
 * Zazaki:, manen
 * Zhuang:


 * Hebrew:

Adverb

 * 1)  Likely.
 * 2)  In a like or similar manner.
 * 1)  In a like or similar manner.

Noun

 * 1)  (sometimes as the likes of) Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort.
 * 2) * 1935, on
 * We shall never see his like again.
 * 1)  The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.
 * 1)  The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.
 * 1)  The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.
 * 1)  The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.
 * 1)  The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.
 * 1)  The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.

Translations

 * Arabic: ,
 * Hijazi Arabic: زَيّ, شبه
 * Dutch:, dat soort dingen, gelijkaardige dingen, gelijkaardigheden
 * Esperanto: simila
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, , (his/its like), euresgleichen, ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὅμοιος
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Irish: leithéid
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic: leithid
 * Swedish:

Conjunction
See Usage notes below.
 * 1)  As, the way.
 * 2) * 1966, Advertising slogan for
 * 3)  As if; as though.
 * 1)  As if; as though.
 * 1)  As if; as though.

Usage notes

 * ' opines that using like as a conjunction, instead of as, the way, as if, or as though, is strictly informal; it has, however, been routine since the Middle English period. AHD4 says, "Writers since Chaucer's time have used like as a conjunction, but 19th-century and 20th-century critics have been so vehement in their condemnations of this usage that a writer who uses the construction in formal style risks being accused of illiteracy or worse", and recommends using as in formal speech and writing. ' does not tag it as colloquial or nonstandard, but notes, "Used as conj[unction]: = 'like as', 'as'. Now generally condemned as vulgar or slovenly, though examples may be found in many recent writers of standing."

Derived terms
See Category:English similes.

Preposition

 * 1) Similar to, reminiscent of
 * 2) Typical of
 * It would be just like Achilles to be sulking in his tent.
 * 1) Approximating
 * Popcorn costs something like $10 dollars at the movies.
 * 1) In the manner of, similarly to
 * He doesn't act like a president.
 * 1) Such as
 * It's for websites like Wikipedia.
 * 1) As if there would be
 * It looks like a hot summer in Europe.
 * 1) Used to ask for a description or opinion of someone or something
 * I hear she has a new boyfriend. What's he like?
 * What's the weather like in Ürümqi today?
 * It's for websites like Wikipedia.
 * 1) As if there would be
 * It looks like a hot summer in Europe.
 * 1) Used to ask for a description or opinion of someone or something
 * I hear she has a new boyfriend. What's he like?
 * What's the weather like in Ürümqi today?

Synonyms

 * ,, as

Derived terms
See Category:English similes.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: si
 * Arabic: ,
 * Algerian Arabic: كيما
 * Egyptian Arabic: زي
 * Hijazi Arabic: زَيّ
 * South Levantine Arabic: زي, متل
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian:
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 好似,
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, , lijkend op, (maybe only in Flanders)
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Estonian: ,
 * Faroese: eins og, líkasum
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌴
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: ὅμοιος, ἐοικώς , οἷον
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: की तरह, तरहh
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, , líkt og
 * Ido:
 * Irish: ar nós
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: のように
 * Khmer:
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: وەک
 * Lao: ດັ່ງ,, ທໍ່
 * Latin: sicuti, iuxta, sicut
 * Latvian:
 * Lingala: lokóla
 * Lithuanian: lyg
 * Livonian: kui
 * Macedonian: како
 * Northern Sami: nu go
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ка̏о
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: ako
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: ako, kaž
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tajik:
 * Talysh:
 * Asalemi: شار
 * Telugu: లాంటి
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Tày: bặng, bặng cạ
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: کی طرح, طرح
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: lykas
 * Zazaki: manen
 * Zhuang:


 * Arabic: ,
 * Hijazi Arabic: زَيّ
 * South Levantine Arabic: زي, متل
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 好似
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient Greek: ὥσπερ
 * Hindi:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: -дай, -дей, -тай, -тей
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: -дай
 * Lao: ດັ່ງ, ທໍ່
 * Macedonian: ка́ко
 * Malay: seperti,, macam,
 * Malayalam: പോലെ
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: као
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: ako
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: ako, kaž
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: мисл
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Tuvan: дег, ышкаш
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Yakut: курдук
 * Zazaki: ze

Particle

 * 1) Likely.

Usage notes
The use as a quotative is informal; it is commonly used by young people, and commonly disliked by older generations, especially in repeated use. It may be combined with the use of the present tense as a narrative. (For its use preceded by a form of be, see be like.) Similar terms are to go and all, as in I go, “Why did you do that?” and he goes, “I don't know” and I was all, “Why did you do that?” and he was all, “I don't know.” These expressions can imply that the attributed remark which follows is representative rather than necessarily an exact quotation; however, in speech these structures do tend to require mimicking the original speaker's inflection in a way would not.

Synonyms

 * I mean, you know
 * I mean, well, you know
 * I mean, well, you know
 * be all, go

Translations

 * Arabic: نَوْعًا مَا, كْمَا لَو كَان
 * Egyptian Arabic: زي ما تقول, تقريبًا
 * Burmese:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Japanese: って言うか
 * Malayalam: പോലെ
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Serbo-Croatian:, , ovaj, , tipa
 * Spanish: como que
 * Swedish:


 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Japanese:, ええと
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: э́то са́мое
 * Scottish Gaelic: seòrsa
 * Spanish:, en plan,
 * Swedish: ,

Etymology 3
From and.

Verb

 * 1)  To be likely.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  like
 * 2)  appreciation; approval

Verb

 * 1)  to like

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  like

Verb

 * 1)  to like

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  a

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  like, alike, similar

Derived terms

 * : to make things equal, to make things similar
 * : to make things equal, to make things similar

Etymology 1
From, from.

Verb

 * 1) to

Adverb

 * 1) as, equally

Etymology 1
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Verb

 * 1) to

Etymology 3
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Adverb

 * 1) as, equally
 * 2) just, immediately
 * 1) just, immediately

Etymology
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Etymology
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Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) To like.
 * 2) To be hesitant to do something.
 * 3) To love somebody or something.
 * 1) To love somebody or something.

Adverb

 * 1) like

Interjection

 * 1)  Used to place emphasis upon a statement.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) match