As a verb, to enjoy or feel pleased by someone or something. As a preposition or conjunction, it means similar to or in the same way as; informally, it is often used in speech to introduce thoughts or quoted words.
From Old English *līcian* (to please) and *gelīc* (similar), from a root meaning “body, form.” Over time, ideas of pleasing and resembling merged in the modern word.
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