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one and the same

one and the same determiner: the selfsame. Used to emphasize the identity or equivalence of two things.

Determiner

one and the same

  1. (idiomatic) The selfsame. Used to emphasize the identity or equivalence of two things.
    • It's almost as if there's one electron in two places at one and the same time.

Pronoun

one and the same

  1. (idiomatic) The selfsame person or thing. Used to emphasize the identity or equivalence of two things.
    • Are the beautiful and the good one and the same?

one and the same meaning in Tamil and Bengali

one and the same in Tamil

அதுவே, அவரே

one and the same in Bengali

একই ব্যক্তি, বস্তু

Origin of one and the same

Possibly a calque of Latin unus et idem.

Questions about one and the same

What does one and the same mean?
One and the same means the selfsame. Used to emphasize the identity or equivalence of two things.
What is one and the same in Tamil?
One and the same in Tamil is அதுவே, அவரே. See One and the same meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is one and the same?
One and the same can be a determiner or a pronoun.

Words near one and the same in the dictionary

  1. one and one
  2. one and ones
  3. one and onlies
  4. one and only
  5. one and out
  6. one and the same
  7. one another
  8. one another's
  9. one anothers
  10. one at a time
  11. one bad apple can spoil the barrel

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: one and the same (page history and authors); one and the same (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); one and the same (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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