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same

UK/seɪm/

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Canada/seːm/

same adjective: not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.

Adjective

same (not comparable)

  1. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
    • 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.
  2. Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.
  3. Similar, alike.
    • You have the same hair I do!
    • 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.1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 9
    Synonyms:
    alike, similar
  4. 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.
  5. A reply of confirmation of identity.
    • King Lear: This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?
      Kent: The same.c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • Dante: Whose house was it?
      Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's.
      Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
      Blue-Collar Man: The same. http://www.whysanity.net/monos/clerks5.html1994, Clerks

Adverb (1)

the same (not comparable)

  1. The same way; in the same manner; to the same extent, unchanged; equally.
    • A mother loves all her children the same.
    • My hometown looked much the same as when I'd left 10 years ago.

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.
    • She's having apple pie? I'll have the same. You two are just the same.
    • 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.1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
  3. (formal, often) 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
  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.

Interjection

  1. (Internet) Indicates approval or agreement with the previous material, especially in reference to the previous speaker's viewpoint.
    Synonyms:
    this, +1, like, likewise, IAWTP

Adverb (2)

same (comparative more same, superlative most same)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) Together.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Same

Same

  1. A district capital of Manufahi District in East Timor
  2. A town in Tanzania.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: SAME

SAME

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Specific Area Message Encoding.

same meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

same in Hindi

not different as regards self; identical
वही vahī, समान samān
similar, alike
एक जैसा ek jaisā, समान samān, जैसा jaisā
the identical thing
वही vahī, उसी usī

same in Urdu

not different as regards self; identical
وہی vahī, یکساں yaksān
the identical thing
وہی vahī, اسی usī

same in Bengali

not different as regards self; identical
একই ekoi

same in Telugu

not different as regards self; identical
అదే adē, ఒకటే okaṭē
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same in Punjabi
ਉਹੋ uho, ਸਮ sam
same in Sanskrit
सम samá
same in Assamese
একে eke
same in Tagalog
pareho, parehas, katulad
same in Arabic
نَفْسَهُ nafsahu, نَفْسَهَا nafsahā, مِثْلَهَا miṯlahā, يُشْبِهَهُ yušbihahu
same in Malay
sama
same in Indonesian
sama, serupa
same in Persian
یکسان yeksân, یکی yeki, شبیه šabih, مشابه mošâbe
same in Thai
เหมือน mʉ̌ʉan, คล้าย kláai
same in Vietnamese
giống nhau, như nhau, cùng một, một thứ
same in Myanmar
တူ tu, အတူတူ a.tutu

Examples of same in a sentence

  • Peter and Anna went to the same high school: the high school to which Peter went is the high school to which Anna went.
  • It took all night to find our hotel room, as we forgot our room number and each door looked the same.
  • "Are you José María García?" - "The same."
  • Methods of selectively distributing data in a computer network and systems using the same
  • Our space may be really same (of equal curvature), but its degree of curvature may change as a whole with the time.1885, William Kingdon Clifford, chapter IV, in The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences:
  • 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.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan &...

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Synonyms of same

Antonyms

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Forms of same

comparativemore same
superlativemost same

Origin of same

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”). Doublet of some and -some. Cognates 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 (samá), Persian هم (ham, “also, same”), Finnish sama (“same”), Estonian sama (“same”). Unlikely to be related to Malay and Indonesian sama (“same, equal, together, exactly like”) and other similar words in Austronesian languages, based on cognates found in Oceanic languages such as Lauan dama (“mate, fellow, corresponding part; exactly like, the same”), 'Are'are tama (“in line, in pairs”); and Malagasy samy (“both, each, everyone; same”), which rarely to never had any direct contact with Indo-European speakers in precolonialism (except Malay and most regional languages of Indonesia...

From Middle English same, samme, samen, (also ysame, isame), from Old English samen (“together”), from Proto-Germanic *samanai (“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”).

Words formed from same

Phrases with same

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Words that rhyme with same

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Questions about same

What does same mean?
Same means not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
What is same in Hindi?
Same in Hindi is वही (vahī), समान (samān), एक जैसा (ek jaisā). See Same meaning in Hindi.
How do you use same in a sentence?
Peter and Anna went to the same high school: the high school to which Peter went is the high school to which Anna went.
What part of speech is same?
Same can be an adjective, an adverb, a pronoun or an interjection.
How do you pronounce same?
Same is pronounced /seɪm/ (UK).

Words near same in the dictionary

  1. sambusehs
  2. sambuusa
  3. sambuusas
  4. Samdrup Jongkhar
  5. Samdrupjongkhar
  6. same
  7. same boat
  8. same day lay
  9. same day lays
  10. same difference
  11. same exact

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