Resembling a beam in appearance, strength, straightness, or the way light travels.
From 'beam' plus the suffix '-like' (from Old English, meaning 'similar to'), a fundamental English pattern for creating comparison adjectives.
The '-like' suffix is so universal that you can attach it to almost anything: dog-like, snake-like, cloud-like. It's been in English since before Shakespeare, and it remains one of our most flexible word-building tools.
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