and the like

English

Etymology

From the 16th century. Replaced earlier and other like.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Phrase

and the like

1. (idiomatic, informal) And other similar items; et cetera.
   • 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 93:

     And farther back still in the evolutionary process we may trace [...] the divinisation of four-footed animals and birds and snakes and trees and the like[.]

   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎^[1], page 10:

     Similarly, Fingilish usually refers to transliterated Farsi in chatrooms, text messages, and the like.

Synonyms

• and so on

Translations

and the like

• Danish: og lignende (og lign., o.l., o.lign., o. lign)
• Esperanto: k.s.
• French: et ainsi de suite (fr), et compagnie (fr), et tout le tintouin (fr), et patin-couffin (fr)
• German: und ähnliches
• Greek: και τα παρόμοια (kai ta parómoia)
• Hungarian: és hasonlók
• Italian: e simili, e così via, ecc. (it)
• Mari:

  Eastern Mari: тулеч моло (tuĺeč molo)

• Polish: i tym podobne
• Russian: и всё тако́е (i vsjo takóje), и всё тако́е про́чее (i vsjo takóje próčeje), и тому́ подо́бное (ru) (i tomú podóbnoje)
• Swedish: och dylikt (o.d. (sv), o.dyl. (sv)), och liknande (o.l., o.likn.)
• Tagalog: at ng katulad
• Ukrainian: і тому́ поді́бне (i tomú podíbne)