same
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪm/
ipa: /seːm/
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [seːm]
note: Ottawa Valley
ipa: [sɛːm]
homophone: Sejm
rhymes: -eɪm
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”).
Senses: examples: text: I realised I was the same age as my grandfather had been when he joined the air force.
text: Even if the twins are identical, they are still not the same person, unlike Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens.
text: Peter and Anna went to the same high school: the high school to which Peter went is the high school to which Anna went.
text: Our space may be really same (of equal curvature), but its degree of curvature may change as a whole with the time.
ref: 1885, William Kingdon Clifford, chapter IV, in The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences:
text: 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.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: If two persons bore the same name, and confusion was likely to be caused, ambiguity was avoided by adding the name of the father […]
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xiii:
glosses: Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
glosses: Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.
examples: text: You have the same hair I do!
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:
glosses: Similar, alike.
examples: text: Round here it can be cloudy and sunny even in the same day.
text: We were all going in the same direction.
glosses: Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.
examples: text: King Lear: This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?
Kent: The same.
ref: 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]:
text: Dante: Whose house was it?
Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's.
Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?
Blue-Collar Man: The same. http://www.whysanity.net/monos/clerks5.html
ref: 1994, Clerks:
glosses: A reply of confirmation of identity.
Synonyms: sense: identical
word: equal
sense: identical
word: equivalent
sense: identical
word: identical
sense: similar
word: alike
sense: similar
word: similar
Derived terms: all else the same
at the same time
bitten by the same bug
buy the same horse twice
by the same token
chip off the same block
chip of the same block
cut from the same cloth
cut of the same cloth
cut out of the same cloth
exact same
get glad in the same britches one got mad in
get glad in the same pants one got mad in
harp on the same string
if it's all the same
in the same boat
in the same breath
in the same shoes
in the same vain
in the same vane
in the same vein
just the same
lightning does not strike twice in the same place
lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place
lightning never strikes twice in the same place
of the same leaven
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
row in the same boat
same-blooded
same-bloodedness
same-day
same day lay
same difference
same exact
same face syndrome
same gender loving
same-gender-loving
same-gender marriage
same gender
same-gender
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 old stuff
same-origin policy
same same
same, same, but different
same same but different
same-sex
same sex
same-sexer
same-sex marriage
same-sexness
same-sexuality
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
the same mixture as before
two cheeks of the same arse
two sides of the same coin
very same
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