Take After

Definition: Take After

Take After

Verb

1. Be similar to a relative; "She takes after her father!".

2. Imitate in behavior; take as a model; "Teenagers follow their friends in everything".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Take After

Imitation

Follow in the steps of, tread in the steps, follow in the footsteps of, follow in the wake of; take pattern by; follow suit, follow the example of; walk in the shoes of, take a leaf out of another's book, strike in with, follow suit; take after, model after; emulate.

Similarity

Verb: be similar; Adjective: look like, resemble, bear resemblance; smack of, savor of; approximate; parallel, match, rhyme with; take after; imitate; favor, span.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "take after": take after one's father ♦ To take after. Additional references.

Albanian

ngjaj (be like, look, look like, participate, resemble), ndjek (attend, chase, follow, give chase, Hunt, lead, nose, persecute, prosecute, pursue, rattle, shadow, smell out, spoor, string along, tag, tail, touch, trace, track, track down, trail, tread). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حذا حذوه (tread in smb.'s footsteps), ‏شبه (affinity, assimilate, compare, comparison, feature, imagine, like, liken, likeness, parallelism, propinquity, quasi-, resemblance, resemble, resole, sameness, semblance, similarity, similitude). (various references)

Bulgarian 

следвам примера на, метнал съм се на, приличам на (become, favour, resemble, smell of), повеждам се по (follow the lead of), повличам се по. (various references)

Chinese 

象 (appearance, elephant, form, shape, to be like, to resemble, to seem, to take after). (various references)

Czech

následovat (ensue, follow, follow on, go after, succeed), být podobný komu. (various references)

Dutch

aarden naar. (various references)

Esperanto

simili laŭkaraktere. (various references)

French

marcher sur les traces de qn. (various references)

German

nachschlagen (consult, foul from behind, look up, lookup, retaliate), geraten nach (to take after), arten (types), ähneln (be like, be similar, be similar to, favour, resemble). (various references)

Greek 

μοιάζω (resemble). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"יות �"ומ�" ל- (favor one, look like, resemble), לר�"וף אחרי. (various references)

Hungarian

valakire üt, hasonlít valakihez (resemble). (various references)

Italian

assomigliare a. (various references)

Manx

lhiantyn (attach, clinging, habitual, obsess, run on, stick, stick on). (various references)

Pig Latin

aketay afteray

Portuguese

parecer-se com (resemble), comparar a (resemble), assemelhar-se a (resemble). (various references)

Romanian

semãna (approach, be alike, disseminate, look lite, resemble, seed, sow, spread). (various references)

Russian 

походить на кого-л., походить (march, walk). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ličiti na (look like). (various references)

Spanish

tomar después, tener como ideal, seguir el ejemplo de (take one's cue from), salir a, querer parecerse, parecerse a (be alike, be resemblance to, bear resemblance to, resemble), desear ser parecido. (various references)

Swedish

brås på (resemble). (various references)

Turkish

benzemek (appear, approach, approximate, be similar, bear resemblance to, compare, correspond, dovetail, Favor, favour, have an air of, have resemblance to, look alike, look like, match, mimic, promise, remind, remind of, resemble, resemble smb. in looks, seem, take on, throw back), çekmek (abide, absorb, arrest, attract, be a sufferer by, be a sufferer from, be cursed with smth., bear, bear with, captivate, carry, catch, charm, claw, conjugate, decline, drag, draw, draw off, draw on, draw out, dwindle, engage, engross, extract, fetch, glamor, glamour, go through, go to scale at, grind, grip, haul, heave, hitch, hoist, hold, inflect, inhale, invite, last out, lug, lump, magnetize, pass through, pique, pluck, prepossess, pull, pull away, pull over, pull up, receive, record, run up, scale in, scale out, schlep, schlepp, shoot, shrink, sip, siphon, siphon off, soak, soak in, sop up, stand the racket, stretch, suck, suffer, sustain, syphon, syphon off, take, take one's medicine, throw back, toss, tow, tow away, tug, turn the scale at, undergo, up with, whisk, withdraw). (various references)

Ukrainian

бути схожим (approach, be alike, be like, look alike, look like). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: ratafee.

-3 letters: aerate, afreet, fakeer, fatter, feater, fetter, karate, retake.

-4 letters: after, areae, arete, attar, eater, faker, freak, karat, kraft, rakee, reata, taker, tatar, tater, tetra, treat.

-5 letters: afar, akee, arak, area, fake, fare, fart, fate, fear, feat, feet, fere, feta, fete, frae, frat, free, fret, kart, kata, keef, keet, kerf, raft, rake, rate.

+2 letters: aftermarket.

+3 letters: aftermarkets.