alike

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English

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Etymology

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The adjective comes from a conflation of several different terms:

Similarly, the adverb also comes from a conflation of several different terms:

Pronunciation

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  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /əˈlaɪk/
  • Rhymes: -aɪk
  • Audio (US):(file)

Adjective

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alike (comparative more alike, superlative most alike)

  1. Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
    The twins were alike.
    • 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 7:
      The wide prospect up stream was grey and lowering, the long still-distant waterfront of Dundee, and the Fife shore were alike colourless, and there was ample evidence of rough weather not far ahead.

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Adverb

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alike (comparative more alike, superlative most alike)

  1. In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.
    We are all alike concerned in religion.

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Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English ylike, from Old English ġelīc, from Proto-West Germanic *galīk.

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Adverb

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alike

  1. alike
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 7-9:
      and whilke we canna zei, albeit o' 'Governere,' 'Statesman,' an alike.
      and for which we have no words but of 'Governor,' 'Statesman,' &c.
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References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114