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Webster 1913 Edition

Alike

A-like′

(ȧ-līk)
,
Adj.
[AS.
onlīc
,
gelīc
; pref.
ā
+
like
.]
Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
[Now used only predicatively.]
The darkness and the light are both
alike
to thee.
Ps. cxxxix. 12.

A-like′

,
adv.
[AS.
gelīce
,
onlīce
.]
In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally;
as, we are all
alike
concerned in religion
.

Webster 1828 Edition

Alike

ALI'KE

, a.
Having resemblance or similitude; similar.
The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. Ps. 13.
[This adjective never precedes the noun which it qualifies.]

ALI'KE

,
adv.
in the same manner, form or degree.
We are all alike concerned in religion.
He fashioneth their hearts alike. Ps. 33.

Definition 2024

alike

alike

English

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Adjective

alike ‎(comparative more alike, superlative most alike)

  1. Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
    The twins were alike.

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Adverb

alike ‎(comparative more alike, superlative most alike)

  1. In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.
    We are all alike concerned in religion.‎
    • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterII:
      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.

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Etymology

From Middle English alike, alyke, alyche, aleche, and earlier ilike, ilik, ylike, yliche, ylich, elik, ȝelic, from Old English ġelīċ ‎(“like; alike; similar; equal”) and Old English onlīċ, anlīċ ("like; similar; equal"; > Middle English anlike, onlich (compare German ähnlich), reinforced by Old Norse álíkr, 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”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /əˈlaɪk/
  • Rhymes: -aɪk

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