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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ALI'KE, a.
Having resemblance or similitude; similar.
The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. Psalms 13.
[This adjective never precedes the noun which it qualifies.]
ALI'KE, adv. in the same manner, form or degree.
We are all alike concerned in religion.
He fashioneth their hearts alike. Psalms 33.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: having the same or similar characteristics; "all politicians are alike"; "they looked utterly alike"; "friends are generally alike in background and taste" [syn: alike, similar, like] [ant: dissimilar, unalike] adv
1: equally; "parents and teachers alike demanded reforms" [syn: alike, likewise]
2: in a like manner; "they walk alike"

Merriam Webster's

I. adverb Date: 14th century in the same manner, form, or degree ; equally <was denounced by teachers and students alike> II. adjective Etymology: Middle English ilik, ilich (from Old English gel?c) & alik, alteration of Old English onl?c, from on + l?c body — more at like Date: 15th century exhibiting close resemblance without being identical <alike in their beliefs> • alikeness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & adv. --adj. (usu. predic.) similar, like one another; indistinguishable. --adv. in a similar way or manner (all were treated alike). Etymology: ME f. OE gelic and ON glíkr (LIKE(1))

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Alike A*like" ([.a]*l[imac]k), a. [AS. onl[=i]c, gel[=i]c; pref. [=a] + like.] Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference. [Now used only predicatively.] The darkness and the light are both alike to thee. --Ps. cxxxix. 12.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Alike A*like", adv. [AS. gel[=i]ce, onl[=i]ce.] In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerned in religion.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If two or more things are alike, they are similar in some way. We looked very alike. ? different ADJ: v-link ADJ 2. Alike means in a similar way. ...their assumption that all men and women think alike. ? differently ADV: ADV after v 3. You use alike after mentioning two or more people, groups, or things in order to emphasize that you are referring to both or all of them. The techniques are being applied almost everywhere by big and small firms alike. = equally ADV: n and n ADV [emphasis] 4. see also lookalike

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. Similar, like, resembling, resemblant, analogous, allied, equal, of a piece. II. ad. Equally, in the same manner, form, or degree, together, in common, both. See akin.

Moby Thesaurus

accordant, akin, all one, all the same, analogous, aped, as is, at par, au pair, automatic, balanced, coequally, coextensively, coincidentally, commensurate, comparable, congruently, consimilar, consistent, consonant, constant, consubstantial, continuous, copied, correspondent, correspondently, corresponding, correspondingly, coterminously, counterfeit, ditto, drawn, duplicate, equable, equal, equalized, equally, ersatz, even, even stephen, exactly alike, fake, favoring, fifty-fifty, flat, following, half-and-half, homogeneous, homoousian, ibid, ibidem, identic, identical, identically, imitated, imitation, immutable, in like manner, indiscernible, indistinct, indistinctive, indistinguishable, interchangeable, invariable, just alike, just the same, knotted, level, like, likewise, measured, mechanical, methodic, mimicked, mock, monolithic, nearly reproduced, nip and tuck, not unlike, of a piece, on a footing, on a level, on a par, on even ground, one, ordered, orderly, par, parallel, persistent, phony, proportionate, quits, regular, resembling, robotlike, same, same here, selfsame, similar, similarly, simulated, smacking of, smooth, something like, square, stable, stalemated, standard, steadfast, steady, stereotyped, suggestive of, synonymously, synthetic, systematic, the same way, tied, twin, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeviating, undifferent, undifferentiated, undiscriminated, undistinguishable, undistinguished, undiversified, uniform, uniform with, uniformly, unruffled, unvaried, unvarying, without difference, without distinction