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same
[ seym ]
adjective
- identical with what is about to be or has just been mentioned:
This street is the same one we were on yesterday.
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- being one or identical though having different names, aspects, etc.:
These are the same rules though differently worded.
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- agreeing in kind, amount, etc.; corresponding:
two boxes of the same dimensions.
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Antonyms:
- unchanged in character, condition, etc.:
It's the same town after all these years.
pronoun
- the same person or thing.
- the same kind or category of thing:
You're having steak? I'll have the same, but very rare.
- the very person, thing, or set just mentioned:
Sighted sub sank same.
- the same, in the same manner; in an identical or similar way:
I see the same through your glasses as I do through mine.
same
/ ɪ /
adjective
- being the very one
she is wearing the same hat she wore yesterday
- being the one previously referred to; aforesaid
- ( as noun )
a note received about same
- identical in kind, quantity, etc
two girls of the same age
- ( as noun )
we'd like the same, please
- unchanged in character or nature
his attitude is the same as ever
- all the same
- Alsojust the same nevertheless; yet
- immaterial
it's all the same to me
adverb
- in an identical manner
Usage
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of same1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of same1
Idioms and Phrases
- all the same,
- notwithstanding; nevertheless:
You don't have to go but we wish you would, all the same.
- of no difference; immaterial:
It's all the same to me whether our team loses or wins.
- just the same,
- in the same manner.
- nevertheless:
It was a success, but it could easily have failed, just the same.
More idioms and phrases containing same
- all the same
- amount to the same thing
- at the same time
- by the same token
- cast in the same mold
- great minds (run in the same channel)
- in the same boat
- in the same breath
- in the same league
- one and the same
- on the same wavelength
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
The cheapest Kop match ticket is still £39 while the most expensive remains at £45, "exactly the same as they were almost 15 years ago", the club said.
At the same time the firm said it will pull back from deploying its Siren drink-making system.
Despite that, Xi knows that Chinese manufacturers are at a decades-long advantage, so that US manufacturers are struggling to find the same scale of infrastructure and skilled labour elsewhere.
Today, in one of those same rooms in that beautiful dormitory, there's probably a kid who thinks he doesn't belong in the team.
Luckily for Sarah she had a solar charger that kept her phone charged through ten hours of blackout, and helped her elderly neighbour do the same.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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