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ALIKE

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the same or similar characteristics

Example:

friends are generally alike in background and taste

Synonyms:

alike; like; similar

Classified under:

Adjectives

Attribute:

alikeness; likeness; similitude (similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things)

Antonym:

unalike (not alike or similar)

Derivation:

alikeness (similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things)

 II. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a like manner

Example:

they walk alike

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 2

Meaning:

Equally

Example:

parents and teachers alike demanded reforms

Synonyms:

alike; likewise

Classified under:

Adverbs

Credits

 Context examples: 

Of course you expect two brothers to be alike, but not that they should have the same tooth stuffed in the same way.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our points of view and outlook on life at least were very alike.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

All chambers are alike to the doctor; and even were they not they are all as one to me to-night.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But I have a notion, Miss Morland, you and I think pretty much alike upon most matters.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I did not participate in these feelings, for to me the walls of a dungeon or a palace were alike hateful.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

YOUR competence and MY wealth are very much alike, I dare say; and without them, as the world goes now, we shall both agree that every kind of external comfort must be wanting.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

We dressed so alike last year that we were frequently mistaken for each other.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They were alike too, in a general benevolence of temper, and a strong habit of regard for every old acquaintance.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I trow that there cannot be two alike in the same cloisters.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I should have leaped out and run for it if I had found the strength, but my limbs and heart alike misgave me.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)