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THE LIKE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A similar kind
Example:
we don't want the likes of you around here
Synonyms:
like; the like; the likes of
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("the like" is a kind of...):
form; kind; sort; variety (a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality)
Context examples:
At last the third also came with the like intent, and the others screamed out: “Keep away; for goodness’ sake keep away!”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
The Yeehats were dancing about the wreckage of the spruce-bough lodge when they heard a fearful roaring and saw rushing upon them an animal the like of which they had never seen before.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
This resolution perhaps may appear very bold and dangerous, and I am confident would not be imitated by any prince in Europe on the like occasion.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Never, he swore, had there been the like of this animal; and the Indians in strange villages swore likewise when they considered the tale of his killings amongst their dogs.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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But amidst your concern for the defects of your nearest relations, and your displeasure at this representation of them, let it give you consolation to consider that, to have conducted yourselves so as to avoid any share of the like censure, is praise no less generally bestowed on you and your elder sister, than it is honourable to the sense and disposition of both.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Well, when I was up there I heard some yarns of the same kind—traditions of Indians and the like, but with somethin' behind them, no doubt.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mrs. Weston, did you ever hear the like?
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
I had been in Yarmouth when the seamen said it blew great guns, but I had never known the like of this, or anything approaching to it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Before him, sitting silently on their haunches, were five live things, the like of which he had never seen before.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
