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Definition
verb (English)
1. To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.Examples: "I willingly confess that it likes me much better when I find virtue in a fair lodging than when I am bound to seek it in an ill-favoured creature."; "His countenance likes me not."Antonyms: dislike, hate, mislike, disapprovearchaictransitive
2. To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of.Examples: "And therefore it is the best way, if you like of it, to examine these taken from experiments touching the Earth, and then proceed to those of the other kind."; "He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me."Antonyms: dislike, hate, mislike, disapproveobsolete
3. (with 'would' and in certain other phrases) To want, desire. See also would like.Examples: "Would you like a cigarette?"; "We could go to the museum if you like."; "May I leave now? ~ If you like."
4. (Internet, social media, transitive) To show support for, or approval of, something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote.Examples: "I liked my friend's last status on Facebook."; "I can't stand Bloggs' tomato ketchup, but I liked it on Facebook so I could enter a competition."; "What' up, y'all? I'm the last man on Earth. Shit's all fucked up. Don't forget to like and subscribe. We out here."Antonyms: unlike#Verb, dislike#VerbInternettransitive
5. Of inanimate objects:Examples: "Too bad this cheese likes to stick to the pan and ruin the whole meal."informal
6. Of inanimate objects:Examples: "This self-service checkout doesn't seem to like my credit card."; "We were frustrated that our seeming innocent choice for a team name was rejected by the game. Apparently somewhere in the name is a word that the algorithm doesn’t like."; "email delivery failed: remote host does not like recipient"informal
noun (English)
1. (chiefly in the plural) Something that a person likes (prefers).Examples: "Tell me your likes and dislikes."Synonyms: favorite, preferenceAntonyms: dislike, pet hate, pet peevein-plural
2. (Internet) An individual vote showing support for, approval of, or enjoyment of, something posted on the Internet.Examples: "Social media is supervisual, and there's nothing more shareable than images, so this is a way to increase shares and likes and follows."; "Dress for myself, I don't dress for hype / I dress for myself, you dress for the likes"; "Likes are the social media currency undergirding an entire influencer economy, inspiring a million Kardashian wannabes and giving many of us regular people daily endorphin hits."Internet
adj (English)
1. (archaic or Scotland, Southern US) Likely; probable.Examples: "But it is like the jolly world about us will scoff at the paradox of these practices."; "Many were […] not easy to be govern'd, nor like to conform themselves to such strict rules."; "Finding it was like to overblow, we took in our Sprit-ſail, and ſtood by to hand the Fore-ſail; but making foul Weather, we look'd the Guns were all faſt, and handed the Miſſen."ScotlandSouthern-USarchaic
2. (Scotland, Southern US, otherwise archaic, usually with to) inclined (to), prone (to).Examples: "He seems like to run from any semblance of hard work."ScotlandSouthern-USusually
adv (English)
1. (obsolete, colloquial) Likely.Examples: "DON PEDRO. May be she doth but counterfeit. CLAUDIO. Faith, like enough."colloquialobsolete
2. (archaic or rare) In a like or similar manner.Examples: "Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him."archaicrare
noun (English)
1. (sometimes as the likes of) Someone similar to a given person, or something similar to a given object; a comparative; a type; a sort.Examples: "There were bowls full of sweets, chocolates and the like."; "This is something the likes of which I've never seen before, and we should compare like with like instead."; ""Such things do happen and centre round the wicked medium. You can get down into a region which is akin to the popular idea of witchcraft, it is dishonest to deny it." "Like attracts like," explained Mrs. Mailey[.]"countablesometimesuncountable
2. (golf) The stroke that equalizes the number of strokes played by the opposing player or side.Examples: "to play the like"countableuncountable
conj (English)
1. (colloquial) As, the way.Examples: "1966, Advertising slogan for Winston cigarettes Winston tastes good like a cigarette should"; "But if you do right to me, baby I’ll do right to you, too Ya got to do unto others Like you’d have them, like you’d have them, do unto you"colloquial
2. (usually colloquial) As if; as though; such as.Examples: "It looks like you've finished the project."; "It seemed like you didn't care."; "Why don’t we do something useful like clean the kitchen?"colloquialusually
Definition source: Wiktionary