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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.
Synonyms: equal, interchangeable, corresponding
Antonyms: different
- being one or identical though having different names, aspects, etc.:
These are the same rules though differently worded.
Synonyms: equal, interchangeable, corresponding
- agreeing in kind, amount, etc.; corresponding:
two boxes of the same dimensions.
Synonyms: equal, interchangeable, corresponding
Antonyms: unlike
- 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
/ seɪm /
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
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Word History and Origins
Origin of same1
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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
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Example Sentences
None of these, though, has inspired quite the same backlash as fluoride.
This same outlet worked the phrase “engagement to toyboy lover” into the headline of their article on Fry.
It is the summit of human happiness: the surrender of man to God, of woman to man, of several women to the same man.
To those who agreed with him, Bush pledged that the law against same-sex marriage would remain intact.
For his part, Bratton is disappointed but not surprised that the same narrative is already being mapped onto Fry and Spencer.
I waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
The Pontellier and Ratignolle compartments adjoined one another under the same roof.
On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
Some were even re-arrested for the same nefarious purpose, and the daily papers published their names on each occasion.
The tenor dies; the prima donna appears to do the same, but the libretto consoles you by declaring that she only swoons.
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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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