Likewise Meaning
/ˈlaɪkˌwaɪz/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
advIn a similar manner.
advalso; moreover; too.
Sentence Examples
Tom is tall and likewise strong.
Watch him and do likewise.
He voted for the change and he expected his colleagues to do likewise.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Tom laughed at the joke, and his friend did ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She said that she was very happy to meet him, and he replied that he felt ____ while shaking her hand tonight.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English lykewise, lykewyse, lyke wyse, lijk wise, a shortened form of Middle English in lik wise (“in like wise”); equivalent to like + -wise. Compare with otherwise.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Chu Li-chih in late 1941 was director of the board of trade and president of the Border Region Bank in the Shen-Kan-Ning border government. Kuo Hung-t'ao served as secretary of the Shen-Kan-Ning Party Committee, the highest party post in the area, until 1938, when he was transferred to the Shansi-Chahar-Hopeh area where he likewise became secretary of the Party Committee. After Kuo's transfer, Kao Kang replaced his rival in the top party post in Shen-Kan-Ning and thereafter steadily increased his power within the border region as the leading figure among Shensi communists."
— 1971, Mark Selden, “From Land Revolution to United Front: The Shen-Kan-Ning Soviet, 1935–1936”, in The Yenan Way in Revolutionary China, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 69:
""But it looks like the kid ain't got no appetite to git well, for they misses him from the tent in the night and finds him rootin' in the grass, and likewise a drizzle fallin'. 'G'wan,' he says, 'lemme go and die like I wanter. He said I was a liar and a fake'—McGuire says—'and I was playin' sick. Lemme alone.'"
— 1903 February, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Hygeia at the Solito”, in Everybody’s Magazine, volume VIII, number 2, New York, N.Y.: John Wanamaker, →ISSN, page 179, column 1:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Tom laughed at the joke, and his friend did ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
She said that she was very happy to meet him, and he replied that he felt ____ while shaking her hand tonight.