Same

//seɪm// adj, adv, intj, name, pron

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical. not-comparable

    "I realised I was the same age as my grandfather had been when he joined the air force."

  2. 2
    Lacking variety from; indistinguishable. not-comparable
  3. 3
    Similar, alike. not-comparable

    "You have the same hair I do!"

  4. 4
    Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities. not-comparable

    "Round here it can be cloudy and sunny even in the same day."

  5. 5
    A reply of confirmation of identity. not-comparable

    "King Lear: This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent? Kent: The same."

Adjective
  1. 1
    unchanged in character or nature wordnet
  2. 2
    equal in amount or value wordnet
  3. 3
    closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree wordnet
  4. 4
    same in identity wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    The same way; in the same manner; to the same extent, unchanged; equally. not-comparable

    "A mother loves all her children the same."

  2. 2
    Together. UK, dialectal, obsolete
Intj
  1. 1
    Indicates approval or agreement with the previous material, especially in reference to the previous speaker's viewpoint. Internet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A district capital of Manufahi District in East Timor
  2. 2
    Acronym of Specific Area Message Encoding. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
  3. 3
    A town in Tanzania.
Noun
  1. 1
    the language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula wordnet
  2. 2
    a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer wordnet
Pronoun
  1. 1
    The identical thing, ditto.

    "The same can be said of him."

  2. 2
    Something similar, something of the identical type.

    "She's having apple pie? I'll have the same. You two are just the same."

  3. 3
    It or them, without a connotation of similarity. formal, often

    "The question is his credibility or lack of same."

  4. 4
    It or them, as above, meaning the last object mentioned, mainly as complement: on the same, for the same. India, common

    "My picture/photography blog...kindly give me your reviews on the same."

Etymology

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”). Doublet of -some, some. 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”).

Etymology 2

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, some. 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”).

Etymology 3

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, some. 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”).

Etymology 4

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, some. 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”).

Etymology 5

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”).

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