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Webster 1913 Edition

Same

Same

,
Adj.
[AS.
same
, adv.; akin to OS.
sama
,
samo
, adv., OHG.
sam
, a.,
sama
, adv., Icel.
samr
, a., Sw.
samme
,
samma
, Dan.
samme
, Goth.
sama
, Russ.
samuii
, Gr. [GREEK], Skr.
sama
, Gr. [GREEK] like, L.
simul
at the same time,
similis
like, and E.
some
, a.,
-some
. √191. Cf.
Anomalous
,
Assemble
,
Homeopathy
,
Homily
,
Seem
,
Verb.
I.
,
Semi-
,
Similar
,
Some
.]
1.
Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged.
Thou art the
same
, and thy years shall have no end.
Ps. cii. 27.
2.
Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions, or the like; not differing in character or in the quality or qualities compared; corresponding; not discordant; similar; like.
The ethereal vigor is in all the
same
.
Dryden.
3.
Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned.
What ye know, the
same
do I know.
Job. xiii. 2.
Do but think how well the
same
he spends,
Who spends his blood his country to relieve.
Daniel.
☞ Same is commonly preceded by the, this, or that and is often used substantively as in the citations above. In a comparative use it is followed by as or with.
Bees like the
same
odors as we do.
Lubbock.
[He] held the
same
political opinions with his illustrious friend.
Macaulay.

Webster 1828 Edition

Same

SAME

,
Adj.
[L. simul, together. Gr. Shall we suppose then that s has passed into an aspirate in this word, as in salt, Gr. or has the Greek word lost s? The word same may be the L. idem or dem, dialectically varied. The primary sense is to set, to place, to put together.]
1.
Identical; not different or other.
Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
Ps. 102.
The Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread. 1Cor. 11.
2.
Of the identical kind or species, though not the specific thing. We say, the horse of one country is the same animal as the horse of another country. The same plants and fruits are produced in the same latitudes. We see in men in all countries, the same passions and the same vices.
Th' etherial vigor is in all the same.
3.
That was mentioned before.
Do but think how well the same he spends, who spends his blood his country to relieve.
4.
Equal; exactly similar. One ship will not run the same distance as another in the same time, and with the same wind. Two balls of the same size have not always the same weight. Two instruments will not always make the same sound.

SAME

,
adv.
Together. Obs.

Definition 2024

Same

Same

See also: same and samë

English

Proper noun

Same

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

Central Franconian

Noun

Same

  1. seed

German

Noun

Same m

  1. Alternative form of Samen

same

same

See also: Same and samë

English

Adjective

same ‎(not comparable)

  1. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
    Are you the same person who phoned me yesterday?‎
    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.‎
    • 1898, Winston Churchill, The Celebrity:
      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.
  2. Similar, alike.
    You have the same hair I do!‎
    • 1909, Archibald Marshall, The Squire's Daughter, chapterI:
      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.
  3. 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.‎
  4. A reply of confirmation of identity.
    • ca. 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act V, scene III:
      King Lear: This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?
      Kent: The same.
    • 1994, Clerks:
      Dante: Whose house was it?
      Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's.
      Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
      Blue-Collar Man: The same.
Usage notes
  • This word is usually construed with the (except after demonstratives: "this same.." etc.). This can make it difficult to distinguish between the simple adjective and the adjective used absolutely or pronominally.
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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.
    • 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.
    She's having apple pie? I'll have the same.   You two are just the same.‎
  3. (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 (US Patent 5,467,217)
    Methods of selectively distributing data in a computer network and systems using the same (US Patent 7,191,208)
  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.
Usage notes
  • This word is commonly used as the same.
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Etymology 2

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

  1. (obsolete or Britain dialectal) Together.

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Most common English words before 1923: went · back · under · #134: same · take · last · here

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Esperanto

Adverb

same

  1. equally

Japanese

Romanization

same

  1. rōmaji reading of さめ

Norwegian

Noun

same

  1. Sami; member of the Sami people

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Swedish

Noun

same c

  1. Sami; person of the Sami people

Declension

Inflection of same 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative same samen samer samerna
Genitive sames samens samers samernas

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Etymology

From Middle English same, from Old Norse samr ‎(“same”) and/or Old English 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”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰 ‎(sama), a weak adjectival form, Ancient Greek ὁμός ‎(homós, “same”), Old Irish som, Russian са́мый ‎(sámyj), Sanskrit सम ‎(sama), Persian هم ‎(ham, “also, same”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /seɪm/
  • Rhymes: -eɪm

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