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Do you find yourself frequently misspelling the word like? Our page is here to help! Do you want to know how to pronounce like? Discover the correct spelling, definition, and etymology of this word, along with a collection of sample sentences, idioms, and proverbs featuring like.

This word consists of 4 letters and is spelled as "L-I-K-E". It has 2 vowels and 2 consonants.

How do you spell like

Typo fix for "like"

like

verb

How to pronunciation like: ˈlīk

What does Like Mean?

What does like meaning in English

1. Resembling; having resemblance. Whom art thou like in thy greatness. Bible Ezek. xxxi.
   
2. His son, or one of his illustrious name, How like the former, and almost the same. Dryd. Æn. As the earth was designed for the being of men, why might not all other planets be created for the like uses, each for their own inhabitants. Bentley’s Sermons. This plan, as laid down by him, looks liker an universal art than a distinct logick. Baker’s Reflect. on Learning.
   
3. Equal; of the same quantity. More clergymen were impoverished by the late war, than ever in the like space before. Sprat’s Sermons.
   
4. [For likely. ] Probable; credible. The trials were made, and it is like that the experiment would have been effectual. Bacon’s Natural History.

Other definitions for like

The definition of 'like' is: to feel attraction toward or take pleasure in : enjoy

How many syllables does "like" have?

Want to know how to spell like, you will find a comprehensive answer on this topic. The word "like consists of 1 syllables and is spelled "ˈlīk".

Synonyms for like:

There are synonyms for 'like'. Depending on the situation and context, the following words are also often used instead of 'like':

care (for), want

Some words similar to "like"

• lik
• liked
• likes
• liker
• liken
• alike
• glike
• lika
• ike
• ike

Idioms with the word like

• like a bull in a china shop
• sleep like a dog
• Like two peas in a pod
• Like riding a bicycle
• fight like cat and dog
• Run like the wind
• a memory like a sieve
• like water off a duck's back
• swim like a fish
• like the back of one's hand

The word "like" in works of art

But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself.

Heart of a Dog / Mikhail Bulgakov

I am the arm. And I sound like this.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me / David Lynch

What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took? Surely it is enough that the likes of you and I at least try to make our small contribution count for something true and worthy.

Kazuo Ishiguro / The Remains of the Day

What you call love was invented by guys like me to sell nylons.

Mad Men / Matthew Weiner

You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

Jennifer Weiner / In Her Shoes

What is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself, into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously...

Roberto Bolaño / 2666

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

The Importance of Being Earnest / Oscar Wilde

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert

Alas! Alas! If only, like a bird, I had wings, how quickly would I fly home to my father's house!

Electra / Sophocles

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How many points in scrabble for like

How many points is the word "like" in Scrabble? Is "like" a Scrabble word? Here is the letter-by-letter scoring of the Scrabble game, which is played all over the world in different languages and with different words.

The total scrabble score for the word like is 8