same

• POS: Adjective, Adverb
• COUNT in NET: 281 in 270 verses (in OT : 160 in 153 verses) (in NT : 121 in 117 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

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. Anomalous, Assemble, Homeopathy, Homily, Seem, v. i., Semi-, Similar, Some.].

•  Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged.  [1913 Webster]

  "Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "The ethereal vigor is in all the same."  [1913 Webster]
•  Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned.  [1913 Webster]

  " 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."  [1913 Webster]

  "What ye know, the same do I know."  [1913 Webster]

  "Do but think how well the same he spends,
  Who spends his blood his country to relieve."  [1913 Webster]

  "Bees like the same odors as we do."  [1913 Webster]

  "[He] held the same political opinions with his illustrious friend."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

same, adj., pron., & adv.
--adj.
1 (often prec. by the) identical; not different; unchanged (everyone was looking in the same direction; the same car was used in another crime; saying the same thing over and over).
2 unvarying, uniform, monotonous (the same old story).
3 (usu. prec. by this, these, that, those) (of a person or thing) previously alluded to; just mentioned; aforesaid (this same man was later my husband).
--pron. (prec. by the)
1 the same person or thing (the others asked for the same).
2 Law or archaic the person or thing just mentioned (detected the youth breaking in and apprehended the same).
--adv. (usu. prec. by the) similarly; in the same way (we all feel the same; I want to go, the same as you do).

Idiom

all (or just) the same
1 emphatically the same.
2 in spite of changed conditions, adverse circumstances, etc. (but you should offer, all the same).
at the same time
1 simultaneously.
2 notwithstanding; in spite of circumstances etc. be all (or just) the same to an expression of indifference or impartiality (it's all the same to me what we do). by the same token see TOKEN. same here colloq. the same applies to me. the same to you! may you do, have, find, etc., the same thing; likewise. the very same emphatically the same.

Derivative

sameness n.

Etymology

ME f. ON sami, sama, with Gmc cognates

THESAURUS

same

Doppelganger, Tweedledum and Tweedledee, actual thing, aforementioned, aforenamed, aforesaid, alike, all one, all the same, anyhow, anyway, at any rate, beforementioned, boring, but, carbon copy, changeless, coequal, comparable, consistent, constant, consubstantial, copy, dead heat, dead ringer, deadlock, ditto, double, drab, draw, duplicate, equal, equivalent, even break, even so, exact, exact counterpart, exactly alike, facsimile, fair shake, for all that, foregoing, forementioned, forenamed, former, gray, homograph, homonym, homoousian, homophone, humdrum, idem, identic, identical, identical same, in any case, in any event, indistinguishable, invariable, just alike, just the same, knotted score, like, monotonous, named, neck-and-neck race, nevertheless, no other, none other, nonetheless, notwithstanding, one, photo finish, regardless, repetitive, replica, said, samely, selfsame, similar, spit and image, spitting image, stalemate, standoff, synonym, tantamount, tedious, the same, the same difference, tie, twin, unaltered, unchanged, unchanging, undifferent, unfailing, uniform, unmodified, unrelieved, unvaried, unvarying, verbatim, very, very image, very same, without difference, without distinction, word-for-word, yet

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same

Identity

N identity, sameness, coincidence, coalescence, convertibility, equality, selfness, self, oneself, identification, monotony, tautology, facsimile, homoousia: alter ego, ipsissima verba, same, self, very, one and the same, very thing, actual thing, real McCoy, no other, one and only, in the flesh, identical, self, ilk, the same, selfsame, one and the same, homoousian, coincide, coalescent, coalescing, indistinguishable, one, equivalent, tweedle dee and tweedle dum, much the same, of a muchness, unaltered, identically, on all fours.