same

See also: Same and samë

English

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /seɪm/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪm

Etymology 1

From Middle English same, from Old Norse samr (“same”) and/or Old English same, sama (“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”), Dutch samen (“together”), Danish samme (“same”), Swedish samma (“same”), Norwegian Bokmål samme (“same”), Norwegian Nynorsk same (“same”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰 (sama), a weak adjectival form, Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same”), Old Irish som, Russian са́мый (sámyj), Sanskrit सम (sama), Persian هم‎ (ham, “also, same”).

Adjective

same (not comparable)

  1. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; 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.
    • 1885, William Kingdon Clifford, The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences:
      Our space may be really same (of equal curvature), but its degree of curvature may change as a whole with the time.
    • 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!
    • 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter I, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen, OCLC 12026604; republished New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1919, OCLC 491297620:
      They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
    • 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
      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.
    • ca. 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act V, scene III:
      King Lear: This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?
      Kent: The same.
    • 1994, Clerks:
      Dante: Whose house was it?
      Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's.
      Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
      Blue-Collar Man: The same.
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.
    It's the same everywhere.
  2. Something similar, something of the identical type.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      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.
    She's having apple pie? I'll have the same.   You two are just the same.
  3. (formal, often law) 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)
  4. (India, 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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Interjection

same

  1. (Internet slang) Indicates the speaker's strong approval or agreement with the previous material.
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Etymology 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 (comparative more same, superlative most same)

  1. (obsolete or Britain dialectal) Together.

Further reading

  • same in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • same in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
  • same at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

Esperanto

Adverb

same

  1. equally

Japanese

Romanization

same

  1. Rōmaji transcription of さめ

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

same m (definite singular samen, indefinite plural samer, definite plural samene)

  1. Sami; member of the Sami people

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²sɑːmə/

Etymology 1

From Northern Sami sápmi.

Noun

same m (definite singular samen, indefinite plural samar, definite plural samane)

  1. Sami; member of the Sami people
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sami. Akin to English same.

Determiner

same

  1. same
    Eg er framleis den same.
    I am still the same.
  2. no matter
    Det er det same for meg.
    It does not matter to me.
    Same kva som skjer […]
    No matter what happens […]

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Swedish

Noun

same c

  1. Sami; person of the Sami people

Declension

Declension of same 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative same samen samer samerna
Genitive sames samens samers samernas

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