same

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree

   curtains the same color as the walls

2. 2
   adj

   same in identity

   The same movie we saw last week is on again.

3. 3
   adj

   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.

4. 4
   adj

   Similar, alike.

   You have the same hair I do!

5. 5
   adj

   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.

6. 6
   adj

   A reply of confirmation of identity.

   King Lear: This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent? Kent: The same.

7. 7
   adv

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

   A mother loves all her children the same.

8. 8
   pron

   The identical thing, ditto.

   The same can be said of him.

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 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), Sansk…