Definition of Liken

1. Verb. Consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous. "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed"

Exact synonyms: Compare, Equate
Generic synonyms: Consider, Study
Derivative terms: Comparative, Comparative, Compare, Comparing, Comparison, Equal, Equating, Equation

Definition of Liken

1. v. t. To allege, or think, to be like; to represent as like; to compare; as, to liken life to a pilgrimage.

Definition of Liken

1. Verb. (transitive followed by '''to''' or '''unto''') To compare; to state that (something) is like (something else). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Liken

1. to represent as similar [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Liken

likelemba
likeless
likelier
likelies
likeliest
likelihood
likelihood functions
likelihoods
likelily
likeliness
likelinesses
likely
likely story
likeminded
likemindedness
liken (current term)
likened
likeness
likenessed
likenesses
likenessing
likening
likens
liker
likers
likes
likest
liketh
likewake
likewakes

Literary usage of Liken

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886)
"... should be" carefully regarded; a little practice will enable one to acquire that habit of reading the hexameter, which we may liken, roughly, ..."

2. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"Gayley. C: M. "50c. Doubleday. Idols. Locke. W: J: 75c. Burt. Idyll envelope series, pa. *25c. Réveil. liken. S: P. $5. Wiley. Idle hours of a busy lawyer. ..."

3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"If we may liken our conductor to an arrangement of linear conductors (see Maxwell, \'', 297, 324, vol. i.), then it may be shown that the skew system of (4) ..."

4. Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries by Leigh Hunt (1828)
"She used to liken it to the door of heaven; and fancy her lost children there, waiting for her. She died in the fifty-third year of her age, ..."

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