belike
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Is belike a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of belike?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make like; simulate.transitive
2. (transitive) To be like; resemble.Examples: "The most beautiful passages of Arnaut are in the canzo beginning: Sweet cries and cracks and lays and chants inflected By auzels who, in their Latin belikes."transitive
verb (English)
1. (impersonal) To be pleasing to; please.Examples: "Yea," said King Arthur, " it belikes me more than any horse that I ever beheld before." " Then," quoth Queen Morgana, "consider it as a gift of reconciliation betwixt thee and me. …""impersonal
2. (transitive) To like; be pleased with.transitive
adv (English)
1. (archaic or dialectal, especially Northern England) Likely, probably, perhaps, haply.Examples: "It seems, you lov'd not her, to leave her token: / She's dead, belike."; "For that reason, belike, Homer feigns the three Graces to be linked and tied hand in hand, because the hearts of men are so firmly united with such graces."; "Upon this he brought me a cotton bag and giving it to me, said, "Take this bag and fill it with pebbles from the beach and go forth with a company of the townsfolk to whom I will give a charge respecting thee. Do as they do and belike thou shalt gain what may further thy return voyage to thy native land.""Northern-Englandarchaicdialectalespeciallynot-comparable
Definition source: Wiktionary