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say it: lahyk
like is a verb, adjective and noun meaning "prefer or wish to do something". It is pronounced /ˈlaɪk/ — lahyk. It carries 11 recorded senses.
be fond of
“I like my nephews”
feel about or towards; consider, evaluate, or regard
“How did you like the President's speech last night?”
resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination
“suits of like design”
“a limited circle of like minds”
“members of the cat family have like dispositions”
“as like as two peas in a pod”
“doglike devotion”
“a dreamlike quality”
conforming in every respect
“boxes with corresponding dimensions”
“the like period of the preceding year”
a similar kind
“dogs, foxes, and the like”
“we don't want the likes of you around here”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for like come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.