"take a liking to" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes a liking to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking a liking to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took a liking to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken a liking to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> a liking to"
      },
      "expansion": "take a liking to (third-person singular simple present takes a liking to, present participle taking a liking to, simple past took a liking to, past participle taken a liking to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1748, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, page 33:",
          "text": "He met casually with this Polly once in company, and taking a liking to her, makes it worth her while to keep entirely to him.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1894, Justin McCarthy, Red diamonds, page 94:",
          "text": "I don't know whether it does you credit or the reverse that I should have taken a liking to you.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Marc Eliot, Jimmy Stewart: A Biography:",
          "text": "He had taken a liking to Osgood Perkins and was fascinated by Perkins's understated but effective style of acting.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To develop a fondness for; to become infatuated with."
      ],
      "id": "en-take_a_liking_to-en-verb-iOsja95a",
      "links": [
        [
          "fondness",
          "fondness"
        ],
        [
          "infatuated",
          "infatuated"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "take a shine to"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "take a liking to"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes a liking to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking a liking to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took a liking to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken a liking to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "take<,,took,taken> a liking to"
      },
      "expansion": "take a liking to (third-person singular simple present takes a liking to, present participle taking a liking to, simple past took a liking to, past participle taken a liking to)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1748, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, page 33:",
          "text": "He met casually with this Polly once in company, and taking a liking to her, makes it worth her while to keep entirely to him.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1894, Justin McCarthy, Red diamonds, page 94:",
          "text": "I don't know whether it does you credit or the reverse that I should have taken a liking to you.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Marc Eliot, Jimmy Stewart: A Biography:",
          "text": "He had taken a liking to Osgood Perkins and was fascinated by Perkins's understated but effective style of acting.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To develop a fondness for; to become infatuated with."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fondness",
          "fondness"
        ],
        [
          "infatuated",
          "infatuated"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "take a shine to"
    }
  ],
  "word": "take a liking to"
}