1. same(n = noun.person) lapp, lapplander, saame, saami, sami - a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer;
is a kind of european
is a member of lapland, lappland
2. same(n = noun.communication) lapp, saame, saami, sami - the language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula;
is a kind of lappic, lappish
1. same(a = adj.all) - 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"
Antonym: other
2. same(a = adj.all) - 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"
Antonym: different
Derived form noun sameness1
3. same(a = adj.all) like - 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"
4. same(s = adj.all) - unchanged in character or nature; "the village stayed the same"; "his attitude is the same as ever"
Derived form noun sameness2
1. Not different or other; not another or others; identical; unchanged. [1913 Webster]
"Thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end." [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." [1913 Webster]
3. Just mentioned, or just about to be mentioned. [1913 Webster]
" 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]
"What ye know, the same do I know." [1913 Webster]
"Do but think how well the same he spends,
Who spends his blood his country to relieve." [1913 Webster]
"Bees like the same odors as we do." [1913 Webster]
"[He] held the same political opinions with his illustrious friend." [1913 Webster]
same, adj., pron., & adv.
--adj.
1 (often prec. by the) identical; not different; unchanged (everyone was looking in the same direction; the same car was used in another crime; saying the same thing over and over).
2 unvarying, uniform, monotonous (the same old story).
3 (usu. prec. by this, these, that, those) (of a person or thing) previously alluded to; just mentioned; aforesaid (this same man was later my husband).
--pron. (prec. by the)
1 the same person or thing (the others asked for the same).
2 Law or archaic the person or thing just mentioned (detected the youth breaking in and apprehended the same).
--adv. (usu. prec. by the) similarly; in the same way (we all feel the same; I want to go, the same as you do).
Idiom:
all (or just) the same
1 emphatically the same.
2 in spite of changed conditions, adverse circumstances, etc. (but you should offer, all the same).
at the same time
1 simultaneously.
2 notwithstanding; in spite of circumstances etc. be all (or just) the same to an expression of indifference or impartiality (it's all the same to me what we do). by the same token see TOKEN. same here colloq. the same applies to me. the same to you! may you do, have, find, etc., the same thing; likewise. the very same emphatically the same.
Derivative:
sameness n.
Etymology:
ME f. ON sami, sama, with Gmc cognates
N identity, sameness, coincidence, coalescence, convertibility, equality, selfness, self, oneself, identification, monotony, tautology, facsimile, homoousia: alter ego, ipsissima verba, same, self, very, one and the same, very thing, actual thing, real McCoy, no other, one and only, in the flesh, identical, self, ilk, the same, selfsame, one and the same, homoousian, coincide, coalescent, coalescing, indistinguishable, one, equivalent, tweedle dee and tweedle dum, much the same, of a muchness, unaltered, identically, on all fours.
all the same, at the same time, in the same breath, same mind