Definition/Meaning of like
- English - Verb: like (third-person singular simple present likes, present participle liking, simple past and past participle liked) To enjoy , be pleased by; favor ; be in favor of. I like reading books. I like it when you sing. (archaic, transitive) To enjoy , be please d by; favor ; be in favor of.: To please (same meaning as above but with subject and object reversed). 1608, William Shakespeare, King Lear,…
- English - Noun: like (plural likes) (in plural) Something that a person likes (prefers). Tell me your likes and dis likes . (Internet) An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet . 2019, “Balenciaga”, performed by Princess Nokia: Dress for myself, I don't dress for hype / I dress for myself, you dress for the likes 2016, Brooke Warner, Green-Light Your…
- English - Adjective: like (comparative more like or (archaic) liker, superlative most like or (archaic) likest) Similar . My partner and I have like minds. The two cats were as like as though they had come from the same litter. (Scotland, Southern US) Likely ; probable . 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide: She had waited overlong, and now it was like that Ailie would escape her toils. 1668, Robert South,…
- English - Adverb: like (comparative more like, superlative most like) (colloquial, dialectal, obsolete) Likely. 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]: DON PEDRO. May be she doth but counterfeit.CLAUDIO.…
- English - Conjunction: like (colloquial) As , the way . 1966, Advertising slogan for Winston cigarettesWinston tastes good like a cigarette should 1978, Bob Dylan, Do Unto Others: But if you do right to me, babyI’ll do right to you, tooYa got to do unto others Like you’d have them, like you’d have them, do unto you (colloquial, usually) As if ; as though . It seemed like you didn't care. It looks like you've finished…