same
Forms
- Comparative
- more same
- Superlative
- most same
Definitions
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.
- Our space may be really same (of equal curvature), but its degree of curvature may change as a whole with the time.
2.Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.
- I want the same dictionary as you have.
- I can only wonder if this is the same for everyone else.
- The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
3.Similar, alike.
- You have the same hair I do!
- 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.
4.Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.
- We were all going in the same direction.
- Round here it can be cloudy and sunny even in the same day.
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)
- The question is his credibility or lack of same.
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.
- It took all night to find our hotel room, as we forgot our room number and each door looked the same.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #158
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Uncommon
Related words
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 and -some.