alike

[a·like]

If two things are alike, they resemble or are similar to each other. You and your sister might be alike in many ways, including your love for strawberry ice cream.

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Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference. [Now used only predicatively.]

Adverb
in a like manner; "they walk alike"

Adverb
equally; "parents and teachers alike demanded reforms"


a.
Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.

adv.
In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerned in religion.


Alike

A*like" , a. [AS. onl'c6c, gel'c6c; pref. 'be + like.] Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference. [Now used only predicatively.]
The darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

Alike

A*like", adv. [AS. gel'c6ce, onl'c6ce.] In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerne in religion.

Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference. [Now used only predicatively.]

In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerne in religion.

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Usage Examples

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike.

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Other Usage Examples

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

If you want to be original just try being yourself, because God has never made two people exactly alike.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.

I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the American sports fans. I play most of my golf in the U.S. nowadays and I am incredibly proud to have won the U.S. Open and U.S. PGA Championship in the last two years.

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