same

Meanings

Adjective

• Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
• Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.
• Similar, alike.
• Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.
• A reply of confirmation of identity.

Adverb

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

Pronoun

• The identical thing, ditto.
• Something similar, something of the identical type.
• It or them, without a connotation of similarity.
• It or them, as above, meaning the last object mentioned, mainly as complement: on the same, for the same.

Related

Similar words

• identical
• equal
• equivalent
• en
• similar
• alike
• this, +1, like
• IAWTP

Opposite words

• another
• different
• opposite
• other

Origin

• From , from and/or , sama in the phrase swā same (swā), both from , from . 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, a weak adjectival form, Ancient Greek ὁμός ("same"), Old Irish som, Russian са́мый, Sanskrit सम, Persian هم ("also, same").
• 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").