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This page has 33 definitions of same with English translations in 9 languages. Same is an adjective, an adverb, pronoun, interjection, noun, verb, determiner and romanization. Examples of how to use same in a sentence are shown. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .
English same definition
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /seɪm/
Audio (GA) (file) - Homophone: Sejm
- Rhymes: -eɪm
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”).
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”).
Adjective
same (not comparable)
- 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.
- Peter and Anna went to the same high school: the high school to which Peter went is the high school to which Anna went.
- 1885, William Kingdon Clifford, chapter IV, in The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences:
- Our space may be really same (of equal curvature), but its degree of curvature may change as a whole with the time.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. 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.
- Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.
- Similar, alike.
- You have the same hair I do!
- 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
- 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.
- 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
- 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.
- 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.
- A reply of confirmation of identity.
- 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, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
- King Lear: This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?
Kent: The same.
Usage notes
- This adjective is usually used after the (except after demonstratives, for example "this same girl"), in which case the actually belongs to the following noun. This can make it difficult to distinguish between this adjective and the same word used without an adjacent noun, in other words as an adverb or pronoun, usually as part of the same.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
- all else the same
- at the same time
- bitten by the same bug
- by the same token
- cut from the same cloth
- cut of the same cloth
- cut out of the same cloth
- exact same
- harp on the same string
- if it's all the same
- in the same boat
- in the same breath
- in the same vain
- in the same vane
- in the same vein
- just the same
- lightning never strikes twice in the same place
- of the same stripe
- on the same page
- on the same wavelength
- paint with the same brush
- play the same tape
- put the same shoe on every foot
- same-blooded
- same-bloodedness
- same-day
- same difference
- same exact
- same-gender-loving
- same gender loving
- same here
- sameish
- samely
- same-minded
- sameness
- same old
- same-old same-old
- same old same-old
- same old-same old
- same old same old
- same old story
- same same
- same sex
- same-sex
- same-sexer
- same-sex marriage
- same-sexness
- see the same way
- self-same
- serve someone the same sauce
- serve someone with the same sauce
- sing from the same hymnal
- sing from the same hymnbook
- sing from the same hymn sheet
- sing off the same hymn sheet
- sing the same tune
- sleep under the same bridge
- tar with the same brush
- tar with the same stick
- the same
- two sides of the same coin
- walk and chew gum at the same time
- you cannot put the same shoe on every foot
- you can't step in the same river twice
Translations
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Adverb
the same (not comparable)
- (used with the) The same way; in the same manner; to the same extent, 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.
Translations
Pronoun
same
- The identical thing, ditto.
- The same can be said of him.
- It's the same everywhere.
- Something similar, something of the identical type.
- She's having apple pie? I'll have the same. You two are just the same.
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- 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.
- (formal, often law) 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 (title of US Patent 5,467,217)
- Methods of selectively distributing data in a computer network and systems using the same (title of US Patent 7,191,208)
- (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.
Usage notes
- This word is commonly used as the same.
Derived terms
Translations
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Interjection
same
Synonyms
Etymology 2
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”).
Adverb
same (comparative more same, superlative most same)
Further reading
- “same”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “same”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “same”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
Esperanto same definition
Pronunciation
Adverb
same
Finnish same definition
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
same (rare)
- cloudy liquid or fluid; fluid that has become cloudy due to its temperature being below the cloud point
Declension
Inflection of same (Kotus type 48/hame, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | same | sameet | ||
genitive | sameen | sameiden sameitten | ||
partitive | sametta | sameita | ||
illative | sameeseen | sameisiin sameihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | same | sameet | ||
accusative | nom. | same | sameet | |
gen. | sameen | |||
genitive | sameen | sameiden sameitten | ||
partitive | sametta | sameita | ||
inessive | sameessa | sameissa | ||
elative | sameesta | sameista | ||
illative | sameeseen | sameisiin sameihin | ||
adessive | sameella | sameilla | ||
ablative | sameelta | sameilta | ||
allative | sameelle | sameille | ||
essive | sameena | sameina | ||
translative | sameeksi | sameiksi | ||
abessive | sameetta | sameitta | ||
instructive | — | samein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
French same definition
Adjective
same (plural sames)
Noun
same m or f by sense (plural sames)
Noun
same m (uncountable)
- Sami (language)
Derived terms
Hadza same definition
Pronunciation
Verb
same
- (transitive) to eat
Related terms
Japanese same definition
Romanization
same
Middle English same definition
Noun
same
- Alternative form of seym
Norwegian Bokmål same definition
Noun
same m (definite singular samen, indefinite plural samer, definite plural samene)
- Sami; member of the Sami people
Synonyms
- lapp (derogatory)
Related terms
References
- “same” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk same definition
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Northern Sami sápmi.
Noun
same m (definite singular samen, indefinite plural samar, definite plural samane)
- Sami; member of the Sami people
Synonyms
Related terms
Etymology 2
From Old Norse sami. Akin to English same.
Alternative forms
- såmmå (dialectal, Trøndelag)
Determiner
same
- same
- Eg er framleis den same.
- I am still the same.
- no matter
- Det er det same for meg.
- It does not matter to me.
- Same kva som skjer […]
- No matter what happens […]
Derived terms
References
- “same” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Prussian same definition
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm (“land, earth”).
Pronunciation
Noun
same
Quotations
- Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary
- ERde Same
Pali same definition
Alternative forms
- 𑀲𑀫𑁂 (Brahmi script)
- समे (Devanagari script)
- সমে (Bengali script)
- සමෙ (Sinhalese script)
- သမေ (Burmese script)
- สเม or สะเม (Thai script)
- ᩈᨾᩮ (Tai Tham script)
- ສເມ or ສະເມ (Lao script)
- សមេ (Khmer script)
- 𑄥𑄟𑄬 (Chakma script)
Noun
same
Adjective
same
- masculine/neuter locative singular of sama
- masculine accusative plural of sama
- feminine vocative singular of sama
Polish same definition
Pronunciation
Adjective
same
Swedish same definition
Etymology
From Northern Sami Sámi[1], from one of the Sami languages, of uncertain origin/meaning, but possibly related to Proto-Balto-Slavic *źemē (“land”).[2] More at Sápmi and Sami.
Noun
same c
- Sami; person of the Sami people
Declension
Declension of same | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | same | samen | samer | samerna |
Genitive | sames | samens | samers | samernas |
Synonyms
- lapp (now often derogatory)
Related terms
References
- same in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- same in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- same in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
- ^ https://www.sgr.fi/ct/ct51.html
Ternate same definition
Pronunciation
Noun
same
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh