same
Meanings
Noun
- a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer
- the language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula
Adjective
- same in identity
- "the same man I saw yesterday"
- "never wore the same dress twice"
- "this road is the same one we were on yesterday"
- "on the same side of the street"
- closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree
- "curtains the same color as the walls"
- "two girls of the same age"
- "mother and son have the same blue eyes"
- "animals of the same species"
- "the same rules as before"
- "two boxes having the same dimensions"
- "the same day next year"
- equal in amount or value
- "the same amount"
- "the same number"
Adjective Satellite
- unchanged in character or nature
- "the village stayed the same"
- "his attitude is the same as ever"
Adj
- Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
- Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.
- Similar, alike.
- Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.
- A reply of confirmation of identity.
Adv
- The same way; in the same manner; to the same extent, equally.
- Together.
Pron
- The identical thing, ditto.
- Something similar, something of the identical type.
- It or them, without a connotation of similarity.
- It or them, as above, meaning the last object mentioned, mainly as complement: on the same, for the same.
Intj
- Indicates approval or agreement with the previous material, especially in reference to the previous speaker's viewpoint.
Origin / 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”).
Synonyms
+1, alike, equal, equivalent, IAWTP, identical, Lapp, Lapplander, like, likewise, Saame, Saami, Sami, similar, this
Scrabble Score: 6
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