"like to" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Re-analysis of like (to) (an adjective meaning \"likely\") as an adverb. (Forms like liked to and would have liked to are from re-analysis as a verb.)",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "like to (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Southern US English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Elizabeth Kytle, The Voices of Robby Wilde, page 204",
          "text": "And the wall facing the hall was almost all glass. It looked more like a store display window than a room. Rob didn't know about all this until a week later when she was back on her ward; but when she told him, he like to died.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "nearly; almost"
      ],
      "id": "en-like_to-en-adv-BNS6qZb9",
      "links": [
        [
          "nearly",
          "nearly"
        ],
        [
          "almost",
          "almost"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Southern US) nearly; almost"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "would have liked to"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Southern-US",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[laɪk.tə]",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-American-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[laːk.tə]",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-American-English"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "like to"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Re-analysis of like (to) (an adjective meaning \"likely\") as an adverb. (Forms like liked to and would have liked to are from re-analysis as a verb.)",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "like to (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adverbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncomparable adverbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Southern US English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Elizabeth Kytle, The Voices of Robby Wilde, page 204",
          "text": "And the wall facing the hall was almost all glass. It looked more like a store display window than a room. Rob didn't know about all this until a week later when she was back on her ward; but when she told him, he like to died.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "nearly; almost"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "nearly",
          "nearly"
        ],
        [
          "almost",
          "almost"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Southern US) nearly; almost"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Southern-US",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[laɪk.tə]",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-American-English"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[laːk.tə]",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-American-English"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "would have liked to"
    }
  ],
  "word": "like to"
}