same

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /seɪm/, SAMPA: /seIm/

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• Rhymes: -eɪm

Etymology 1

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 UK dialectal) Together.

Etymology 2

From Middle English, from Old Norse samr (“same”), and/or from Old English same (“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 *somo-, *somos (“same”). Cognate with Scots samin (“same, like, together”), Danish samme (“same”), Swedish samma (“same”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰 (sama), a weak adjectival form, Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same”), Old Irish som, Russian самый (sámyj), Sanskrit सम (sama).

Adjective

same (not comparable)

1. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; numerically 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.

2. Similar, alike.

   You have the same hair I do!

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.[1]

   • 1994, Clerks:

     Dante: Whose house was it?

     Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's.

     Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?

     Blue-Collar Man: The same.[2]

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.

Synonyms

• (identical): identical, equal, equivalent
• (similar): similar, alike

Antonyms

• different, other, another

Derived terms

Terms derived from same

by the same token same old same old

same old story same-sex

self-same

Translations

not different as regards self; identical

American Sign Language: 1@InsideChesthigh-PalmDown-1@InsideChesthigh-PalmDown 1@Radial-PalmDown-1@CenterChesthigh-PalmDown, Y@InsideChesthigh-PalmDown Sidetoside Arabic: نفسه (ar) (nafsáhu) Armenian: նույն (nuyn) Bengali: একই (bn) (ēka'i) Catalan: mateix (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 同一 (tung4yat1) Mandarin: 同一 (zh) (tóngyī), 同 (zh) (tóng), 同样 (zh) (tóngyàng), 一样 (zh) (yīyàng) Czech: tentýž (cs) m. Danish: samme (da) Dutch: dezelfde (nl), hetzelfde (nl) Esperanto: sama (eo) Estonian: sama (et) Finnish: sama (fi) French: même (fr) m. German: selbe (de), derselbe (de) Greek: ίδιος (el) (ídios) Hindi: वही (hi) (vahī) Hungarian: ugyanaz (hu), ugyanez (hu), ugyanolyan (hu), ugyanilyen (hu) Icelandic: samur (is) Indonesian: sama (id) Irish: ionann (ga) Italian: stesso (it)

Japanese: 同じ (ja) (おなじ, onaji) Javanese: padha (jv), sami (jv) Korean: 똑같다 (ko) (ddokgatda) Latin: īdem (la), eadem (la) f., idem (la) n. Mongolian: адил (mn) (adil) Norwegian: samme (no) Novial: sami Occitan: meteis (oc) m. Persian: یکسان (fa) (yeksân) Polish: taki sam (pl) Portuguese: mesmo (pt) m., o mesmo (pt) Punjabi: ਉਹੋ (pa) (uhō), ਸਮ (pa) (sama) Romanian: același (ro) Russian: одинаковый (ru) (odinákovyj), то же (ru) (to že) Scottish Gaelic: aon (gd), ceart (gd), ceudna (gd), dearbh (gd) Slovene: isti m., ista f., isto n. Spanish: mismo (es) Swahili: sawa (sw) Swedish: samma (sv) Tagalog: pareho (tl) Telugu: అదే (te) (adē), ఒకటే (te) (okaṭē) Turkish: aynı (tr) Ukrainian: одноманітний (uk) (odnomanitnij) Urdu: وہی (ur) (vahī), يکساں (ur) (yaksān) Vietnamese: giống nhau (vi), như nhau (vi), cùng một (vi), một thứ (vi) Yiddish: זעלב (zelb), זעלביק (zelbik)

similar, alike

American Sign Language: Y@InsideChesthigh-PalmDown Sidetoside Armenian: նույն (nuyn) Catalan: mateix (ca) Chinese: Cantonese: 一樣, 一样 (yat1yeung6) Mandarin: 一樣 (zh), 一样 (zh) (yīyàng) Czech: stejný (cs) m. Danish: samme (da) Dutch: dezelfde (nl), hetzelfde (nl) Esperanto: simila (eo) Estonian: samasugune (et) Finnish: samanlainen (fi) French: même (fr) m. German: gleich (de) Greek: όμοιος (el) (ómi-os)

Indonesian: serupa (id) Irish: céanna (ga) Japanese: 同じ (ja) (おなじ, onaji) Korean: 같다 (ko) (gatda) Lao: ຄ້າຍຄື (lo) Norwegian: lignende (no) Novial: simili Persian: شبیه (fa) (shabih) Russian: такой же (ru) (takój že) Scottish Gaelic: aon (gd), ceart (gd), ceudna (gd), dearbh (gd) Slovene: isti m., ista f., isto n. Spanish: mismo (es) Swahili: sawa (sw) Swedish: samma (sv), lik (sv) Yiddish: זעלב (zelb), זעלביק (zelbik)

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Albanian: i njëjti, e njëjta Arabic: نفس (nafs) Basque: please add this translation if you can Mandarin: 相同 (xiāngtóng), 一样 (yī yàng) Georgian: იგივე (igive), იმავე (imave) Hebrew: please add this translation if you can Hindi: please add this translation if you can Ido: sama Indonesian: please add this translation if you can Latin: idem, eadem Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Lojban: mintu Maltese: please add this translation if you can

Maori: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: please add this translation if you can Occitan: meteis Old English: please add this translation if you can Persian: please add this translation if you can Polish: sam (pl) m., równy (pl) Romanian: identic Romansch: medem Sanskrit: please add this translation if you can Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can Slovak: please add this translation if you can Swahili: please add this translation if you can Swedish: samma Thai: เดียวกัน (dieow gan) Turkish: aynı (tr), eşit (tr) Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can Welsh: please add this translation if you can

Pronoun

same

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. (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)

Usage notes

• This word is commonly used as the same.

Derived terms

• all the same
• one and the same
• same to you

Translations

the identical thing

Armenian: նույնը (nuynə) Catalan: mateix (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 同樣 (zh), 同样 (zh) (tóngyàng) Czech: tentýž (cs) m. Danish: samme (da) Dutch: hetzelfde (nl) Esperanto: samo (eo) Estonian: sama (et) Finnish: samaa (partitive) French: même (fr) m. German: derselbe (de) Hebrew: אותו ה... (he) [hoto ha] f., אותה ה... (he) [hota ha] m. Hindi: वही (hi) (vahī), उसी (hi) (usī) Hungarian: ugyanaz (hu)

Italian: stesso (it) Japanese: (state) 同じこと (ja) (おなじこと, onaji koto); (material) 同じもの (ja) (おなじもの, onaji mono); (person) 同じひと (ja) (おなじひと, onaji hito) Latin: īdem (la) m. Norwegian: samme (no) Novial: samu, samum Portuguese: mesmo (pt) m. Russian: тот же самый (ru) (tot že sámyj), тот же (ru) (tót že) Slovene: isto (sl) Spanish: mismo (es) m. Swahili: sawa (sw) Swedish: samma (sv) Urdu: وہی (ur) (vahī), اسی (ur) (usī) Vietnamese: giống như vậy (vi)

something similar, something of the identical type

Armenian: նույնը (nuynə) Catalan: mateix (ca) Czech: stejný (cs) m. Danish: samme (da) Dutch: hetzelfde (nl) Estonian: sama (et) Finnish: samaa (partitive) French: même (fr) m. Hungarian: ugyanaz (hu), azonos (hu)

Japanese: (state) 同じこと (ja) (おなじこと, onaji koto); (material) 同じもの (ja) (おなじもの, onaji mono); (person) 同じひと (ja) (おなじひと, onaji hito) Norwegian: samme (no), lignende (no) Novial: samu, samum Russian: такой же (ru) (takój že) Slovene: isto (sl) Spanish: mismo (es) m. Swahili: sawa (sw) Swedish: samma (sv)

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Korean: 동일한 것 (ko) (dong-ilhan geot), 동일한 일 (ko) (dong-ilhan il), 동일인 (ko) (dong-ilin), 같은 일 (ko) (gateun il) Polish: (to) samo (pl) Swedish: samma

Statistics

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

External links

• same in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• same in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• same at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• ASME
• mase
• mesa
• seam

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Esperanto

Adverb

same

1. equally

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Japanese

Noun

same (hiragana さめ)

1. 鮫: shark.

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Norwegian

Noun

same

1. Sami; person of the Sami people

Inflection

    Inflection of same

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	same	samen	samer	samene
Nynorsk m	same	samen	samar	samane

Synonyms

• lapp (derogatory)

Related terms

• samisk

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Swedish

Noun

same c.

1. Sami; person of the Sami people

Declension

Declension of same

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	same	samen	samer	samerna
genitive	sames	samens	samers	samernas

Synonyms

• lapp (derogatory)

Related terms

• samiska