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English
Etymology
From the 16th century. Replaced earlier and other like.
Pronunciation
Phrase
and the like
- (idiomatic, informal) And other similar items; et cetera.
1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 93:And farther back still in the evolutionary process we may trace [...] the divinisation of four-footed animals and birds and snakes and trees and the like[.]
2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 10:Similarly, Fingilish usually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms, text messages, and the like.
Synonyms
Translations
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- Danish: og lignende (og lign., o.l., o.lign., o. lign)
- Esperanto: k.s.
- French: et ainsi de suite (fr), et compagnie (fr), et tout le tintouin (fr), et patin-couffin (fr)
- German: und ähnliches
- Greek: και τα παρόμοια (kai ta parómoia)
- Hungarian: és hasonlók
- Italian: e simili, e così via, ecc. (it)
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: тулеч моло (tuĺeč molo)
- Polish: i tym podobne
- Russian: и всё тако́е (i vsjo takóje), и всё тако́е про́чее (i vsjo takóje próčeje), и тому́ подо́бное (ru) (i tomú podóbnoje)
- Swedish: och dylikt (o.d. (sv), o.dyl. (sv)), och liknande (o.l., o.likn.)
- Tagalog: at ng katulad
- Ukrainian: і тому́ поді́бне (i tomú podíbne)
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