'Same' definitions:
Definition of 'same'
From: WordNet
adjective
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" [ant: other]
adjective
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" [ant: different]
adjective
Equal in amount or value; "like amounts"; "equivalent amounts"; "the same amount"; "gave one six blows and the other a like number"; "the same number" [syn: like, same] [ant: unlike]
adjective
Unchanged in character or nature; "the village stayed the same"; "his attitude is the same as ever"
noun
A member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer [syn: Lapp, Lapplander, Sami, Saami, Same, Saame]
noun
Definition of 'Same'
From: GCIDE
- Same \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. [1913 Webster]
- Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end. --Ps. cii. 27. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The ethereal vigor is in all the same. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned. [1913 Webster]
- What ye know, the same do I know. --Job. xiii. 2. [1913 Webster]
- Do but think how well the same he spends, Who spends his blood his country to relieve. --Daniel. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Bees like the same odors as we do. --Lubbock. [1913 Webster]
- [He] held the same political opinions with his illustrious friend. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'same'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Doppelganger,
- 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,
- Tweedledum and Tweedledee,
- 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