Definitions for: Same


[adv] in the same manner; "you get treated fairly, same as any other student in this course!"
[adj] equal in amount or value; "like amounts"; "equivalent amounts"; "the same amount"; "gave one six blows and the other a like number"; "an equal number"; "the same number"
[adj] 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"
[adj] 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"



Webster (1913) Definition: Same, a. [AS. same, adv.; akin to OS. sama, samo, adv.,
OHG. sam, a., sama, adv., Icel. samr, a., Sw. samme, samma,
Dan. samme, Goth. sama, Russ. samuii, Gr. ?, Skr. sama, Gr. ?
like, L. simul at the same time, similis like, and E. some,
a., -some. [root]191. Cf. Anomalous, Assemble,
Homeopathy, Homily, Seem, v. i., Semi-, Similar,
Some.]
1. Not different or other; not another or others; identical;
unchanged.

Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
--Ps. cii. 27.

2. Of like kind, species, sort, dimensions, or the like; not
differing in character or in the quality or qualities
compared; corresponding; not discordant; similar; like.

The ethereal vigor is in all the same. --Dryden.

3. Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned.

What ye know, the same do I know. --Job. xiii.
2.

Do but think how well the same he spends, Who spends
his blood his country to relieve. --Daniel.

Note: Same is commonly preceded by the, this, or that and is
often used substantively as in the citations above. In
a comparative use it is followed by as or with.

Bees like the same odors as we do. --Lubbock.

[He] held the same political opinions with his
illustrious friend. --Macaulay.

Synonyms: aforementioned(a), aforesaid(a), assonant, comparable, corresponding, duplicate, equal, equivalent, identical, indistinguishable, like, one and the same(p), one(a), said(a), self, selfsame(a), synoptic, synoptical, very(a)

Antonyms: different, other, unequal, unlike

See Also: similar, unvaried, unvarying

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