THE LIKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does the like mean? 

• THE LIKE (noun)
  The noun THE LIKE has 1 sense:

1. a similar kind

  Familiarity information: THE LIKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THE LIKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A similar kind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

like; the like; the likes of

Context example:

we don't want the likes of you around here

Hypernyms ("the like" is a kind of...):

form; kind; sort; variety (a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality)

 Context examples 

“If you had been mixed up with the like of that, you would never have put another foot in my house, you may lay to that. And what was he saying to you?”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You may laugh, sir, but I’ll never see the like of it again.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Saw man ever the like before?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My aunt, with her own watch in her hand, did the like.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You say you saw signs of men, and fires, traps, and the like.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Did you ever see the like?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The like reserve prevailed on other topics.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The like had never been known before.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

They be all very well for comers and trippers, an' the like, but not for a nice young lady like you.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Injuries to tissues caused by contact with heat, steam, chemicals (BURNS, CHEMICAL), electricity (BURNS, ELECTRIC), or the like.

(Burn, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)