Same
adj, adv, intj, name, pron ·Common ·Middle school level
Definitions
- 1 the language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula wordnet
- 2 a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer wordnet
- 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 Lacking variety from; indistinguishable. not-comparable
- 3 Similar, alike. not-comparable
"You have the same hair I do!"
- 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 A reply of confirmation of identity. not-comparable
"King Lear: This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent? Kent: The same."
- 1 unchanged in character or nature wordnet
- 2 equal in amount or value wordnet
- 3 closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree wordnet
- 4 same in identity wordnet
- 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 Together. UK, dialectal, obsolete
- 1 The identical thing, ditto.
"The same can be said of him."
- 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 It or them, without a connotation of similarity. formal, often
"The question is his credibility or lack of same."
- 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."
- 1 Indicates approval or agreement with the previous material, especially in reference to the previous speaker's viewpoint. Internet
- 1 A district capital of Manufahi District in East Timor
- 2 Acronym of Specific Area Message Encoding. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
- 3 A town in Tanzania.
Example
More examples"I can only wonder if this is the same for everyone else."
Etymology
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”).
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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