same
(noun, adjective, adverb, pronoun)
adjective
1. 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
Similar word(s): aforementioned, aforesaid, said, identical, selfsame, very
2. 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
Similar word(s): equal, like, similar, assonant, comparable, corresponding, like, duplicate, homophonic, identical, indistinguishable, one, synoptic, synoptical, unvaried, unvarying
3. equal in amount or value
- the same amount
- the same number
4. unchanged in character or nature
- the village stayed the same
- his attitude is the same as ever
Similar word(s): unchanged
Sentences with same as an adjective:
- Are you the same person who phoned me yesterday?
- I realised I was the same age as my grandfather had been when he joined the air force.
- Even if the twins are identical, they are still not the same person, unlike Mark Twain and Samuel Clemens.
- Peter and Anna went to the same high school: the high school to which Peter went is the high school to which Anna went.
- You have the same hair I do!
- Round here it can be cloudy and sunny even in the same day.
- We were all going in the same direction.
adverb
1. (obsolete or Britain dialectal) Together.
noun
1. a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer
Definition categories: person, european
2. the language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula
Definition categories: communication, lappic, lappish
pronoun
1. The identical thing, ditto.
- The same can be said of him.
2. Something similar, something of the identical type.
- She's having apple pie? I'll have the same.
3. (formal, often law) It or them, without a connotation of similarity.
- The question is his credibility or lack of same.
- Light valve suspensions and films containing UV absorbers and light valves containing the same (US Patent 5,467,217)Methods of selectively distributing data in a computer network and systems using the same (US Patent 7,191,208)
4. (India, common) It or them, as above, meaning the last object mentioned, mainly as complement: on the same, for the same.
- My picture/photography blog...kindly give me your reviews on the same.