Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adj
Like; resembling; equal.
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Usage: obsolete
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name
A neutron star in Milky Way Galaxy, Virgo constellation; The first star, a pulsar, at which exoplanets were discovered.
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Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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name
The star system and planetary system containing this star.
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name
A surname from German.
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noun
A reanimated corpse or undead being; particularly an intelligent, undead spellcaster.
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Qualifier: roleplaying games
Topics: fantasy
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noun
A corpse or dead body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, archaic
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History
From Middle English līke, līch (“like”); see like and -like for more. Compare -ly and -lich.
From lich, the supernatural entity. From being a neutron star, a "dead" star, a star that no longer contains a fusion core, but which is radiating away its stored energy.
Borrowed from German Lich.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līką Proto-West Germanic *līk Old English līċ Middle English lich English lich Inherited from Middle English lich, from Old English līċ, from Proto-West Germanic *līk, from Proto-Germanic *līką, from Proto-Indo-European *leyg-.
Across languages
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
