alike

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   in a like manner

   they walk alike

2. 2
   adv

   equally

   parents and teachers alike demanded reforms

3. 3
   adj

   Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.

   Twins are physically alike, that is, similar-looking people on the outside.

4. 4
   adv

   In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally.

   We are all alike concerned in religion.

5. 5
   adj

   having the same or similar characteristics

6. 6
   name

   A village in Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka, India.

Etymology

The adjective comes from a conflation of several different terms: * Middle English alich, alych, alyke, a Late Middle English development from earlier Middle English anlich, anlyke, from Old English onlīċ, anlīċ. Compare German ähnlich. * The borrowed Old Norse cognate of the same word, álíkr, ultimately yielding similar Late Middle English forms. * Middle English ylich, ylych, ilich, ylik, ylike, ȝelic, from Old English ġelīċ (“like; alike; similar; equal”), from Proto-West Germanic *galīk, from Proto-Germanic *galīkaz (“alike, similar”). Cognate with Scots elyke, alyke (“like, alike”), Sater…