same

The identical thing, ditto.

Adjective

  1. 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.
  2. Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.
  3. Similar, alike.
    • You have the same hair I do!
    • 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...
    • 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. - 1935, George...
  4. 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.
  5. A reply of confirmation of identity.
    • King Lear: This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent? Kent: The same. - c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio),...
    • 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 - 1994, Clerks:

Origin

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 and -some. Cognates 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”). Unrelated to similar words in Austronesian languages, including Malagasy samy (“both, each, everyone; same”); Indonesian and Malay sama (“same, equal, together, exactly like”); Lauan dama (“mate, fellow,...

Synonyms

equal equivalent identical alike similar

Antonyms

another different opposite other

Derived

all else the same along the same vein 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

Adverb not comparable

  1. The same way; in the same manner; to the same extent, unchanged; 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.

Forms

the same

Adverb UK, dialectal

  1. Together.

Origin

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”).

Forms

more same most same

Interjection

  1. Indicates approval or agreement with the previous material, especially in reference to the previous speaker's viewpoint.

Synonyms

this +1 like likewise IAWTP

Pronoun

  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.
    • She's having apple pie? I'll have the same. You two are just the same.
    • 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...
  3. 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
    • Methods of selectively distributing data in a computer network and systems using the same
  4. 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.

Derived

all the same one and the same same to you