alike
pronunciation
How to pronounce alike in British English:
UK [əˈlaɪk]
How to pronounce alike in American English:
US [əˈlaɪk]
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- Adjective:
- having the same or similar characteristics
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- Adverb:
- equally
- in a like manner
Word Origin
- alike
- alike: [OE] Alike is an ancient word whose ultimate Germanic source, *galīkam, meant something like ‘associated form’ (*līkam ‘form, body’ produced German leiche ‘corpse’ and Old English lic, from which we get lychgate, the churchyard gate through which a funeral procession passes; and the collective prefix *gameant literally ‘with’ or ‘together’).In Old English, *galīkam had become gelīc, which developed into Middle English ilik; and from the 14th century onwards the prefix i-, which was becoming progressively rarer in English, was assimilated to the more familiar a-. The verb like is indirectly related to alike, and the adjective, adverb, preposition, and conjunction like was formed directly from it, with the elimination of the prefix.=> each, like
- alike (adj.)
- c. 1300, aliche, from Old English gelic and/or onlice "similar," from Proto-Germanic *galikam "associated form" (cognates: Old Frisian gelik, German gleich, Gothic galeiks, Old Norse glikr; see like (adj.)).
Example
- 1. To inhabitants of moscow all the villages looked alike .
- 2. The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike .
- 3. Mr sen approaches them alike .
- 4. On all counts , identical twins were found to be more alike than fraternal twins .
- 5. But back to whores : edlund and korn admit that spouses and streetwalkers aren \ 't exactly alike .