such as

English

Pronunciation

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Preposition

such as

1. For example.

   Waterbirds, such as the duck or the gull, are common in the area.

   • 2013 July 26, Nick Miroff, “Mexico gets a taste for eating insects […]”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 32:

     The San Juan market is Mexico City's most famous deli of exotic meats, where an adventurous shopper can hunt down hard-to-find critters such as ostrich, wild boar and crocodile.

2. Like, of the kind mentioned.

   I was never in a country such as that.

   A plan such as you propose will never succeed.

   • 1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret:

     […] the benighted stranger […] might have easily […] mistaken the hospitable mansion for a good, old-fashioned inn, such as have faded from this earth since the last mail coach and prancing tits took their last melancholy journey to the knacker's yard.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:

     No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or […] . And at last I began to realize in my harassed soul that all elusion was futile, and to take such holidays as I could get, when he was off with a girl, in a spirit of thankfulness.

Usage notes

In the sense of “for example”, such as is preferred to like in formal writing.

Synonyms

• (for example): for example, for instance, e.g., like

Translations

for example — see for example

like

• Arabic: هَكَذَا (hakaḏā)

  Egyptian Arabic: زي كدا (zai keda), كدا (keda)

• Bulgarian: като (bg) (kato)
• Catalan: com ara (ca)
• Chinese:

  Dungan: зущён (zuxion)

  Mandarin: 諸如 / 诸如 (zh) (zhūrú)

• Dutch: zoals (nl)
• Esperanto: kiel (eo)
• Finnish: lainen (fi), kaltainen (fi)
• French: comme (fr)
• Georgian: მსგავს (msgavs), ისეთივე როგორც (isetive rogorc)
• German: wie (de)
• Greek: όπως (el) (ópos)

  Ancient Greek: οἷος m (hoîos)

• Hebrew: כְּגוֹן (he) (kegón)
• Hungarian: olyan…, mint/amilyen
• Italian: come (it)
• Portuguese: como (pt)
• Romanian: ca (ro)
• Russian: тако́й (takój) ... как (kak) (takój ... kak) (e.g. "такой день (denʹ) как ..." - a day such as ...), тако́й (takój) как (kak) (takój kak), как (ru) (kak), как наприме́р (kak naprimér)
• Spanish: como (es)
• Turkish: örneğin (tr), gibi (tr)
• Venetan: come (vec)

Anagrams

• as such