• Same

    Pronunciation

    • UK IPA: /seɪm/
    • Rhymes: -eɪm

    Origin 1

    From Middle English same, from Old Norse samr ("same"), and/or from Old English same ("same") in the phrase swā same (swā) ("in like manner, in the same way (as)"). Both from Proto-Germanic *samaz ("same"), from Proto-Indo-European *somHós ("same"). Cognate with Scots samin ("same, like, together"), Danish samme ("same"), Swedish samma ("same"), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰, a weak adjectival form, Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, "same"), Old Irish som, Russian самый, Sanskrit सम, Persian هم (ham, "also, same").

    Full definition of same

    Adjective

    same

    1. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically identical.
      Are you the same person who phoned me yesterday?
      I realised I was the same age as my grandfather had been when he joined the air force.
      Even if the twins are identical, they are still not the same person, unlike Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens.
      Peter and Anna went to the same high school: the high school to which Peter went is the high school to which Anna went.
      • 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity, I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
    2. Similar, alike.
      You have the same hair I do!
      • 1935, George Goodchild, Death on the Centre Court Chapter 1, She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
    3. Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.
      Round here it can be cloudy and sunny even in the same day.
      We were all going in the same direction.
    4. A reply of confirmation of identity.

    Usage notes

    This word is usually construed with the (except after demonstratives: "this same.." etc.). This can make it difficult to distinguish between the simple adjective and the adjective used absolutely or pronominally.

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    Pronoun

    same

    1. The identical thing, ditto.
      The same can be said of him.
    2. Something similar, something of the identical type.
      • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 5, When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
    3. She's having apple pie? I'll have the same.   You two are just the same.
    4. (formal, often legal) It or them, without a connotation of similarity.
      The question is his credibility or lack of same.
      Light valve suspensions and films containing UV absorbers and light valves containing the same (US Patent 5,467,217)Methods of selectively distributing data in a computer network and systems using the same (US Patent 7,191,208)
    5. (Indian English, common) It or them, as above, meaning the last object mentioned, mainly as complement: on the same, for the same.My picture/photography blog...kindly give me your reviews on the same.

    Usage notes

    This word is commonly used as the same.

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    Origin 2

    From Middle English same, samme, samen, (also ysame, isame), from Old English samen ("together"), from Proto-Germanic *samana- ("together"), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- ("one, together"). Cognate with Scots samin ("together"), Dutch samen ("together"), German zusammen ("together"), Swedish samman ("together"), Icelandic saman ("together").

    Adverb

    same

    1. (obsolete or UK dialectal) Together.

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