🇮🇳Hindi Source WordCode: HI

और इस तरह के

Pronunciation / Transliteration: aur is tarah ke

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
And the like/ænd ðə laɪk/
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🇮🇳 Example Sentence in Hindi:

"वह किताबें, कॉपियाँ और इस तरह की चीज़ें बेचता है।"

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2 senses
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  1. 1

    Used to indicate that there are other similar things or people that could be mentioned.

    "She collects vintage postcards, postage stamps, and the like."
  2. 2

    Et cetera or similar things of the same kind.

    "We discussed politics, economics, and the like during the seminar."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the conjunction 'and', the definite article 'the', and the noun/adjective 'like' originating from Old English 'gelīc', meaning similar. The phrase stabilized in Early Modern English as a collective idiom used to denote unmentioned items of the same category or class.

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