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