SAME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Same mean? 

• SAME (noun)
  The noun SAME has 2 senses:

1. a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer

2. the language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula

  Familiarity information: SAME used as a noun is rare.

• SAME (adjective)
  The adjective SAME has 4 senses:

1. same in identity

2. closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree

3. equal in amount or value

4. unchanged in character or nature

  Familiarity information: SAME used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern Scandinavia and herding reindeer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Lapp; Lapplander; Saame; Saami; Same; Sami

Hypernyms ("Same" is a kind of...):

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Holonyms ("Same" is a member of...):

Lapland; Lappland (a region in northmost Europe inhabited by Lapps)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The language of nomadic Lapps in northern Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Lapp; Saame; Saami; Same; Sami

Hypernyms ("Same" is a kind of...):

Lappic; Lappish (any of the languages spoken by the Lapps and generally assumed to be Uralic languages)

• SAME (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Same in identity

Context example:

on the same side of the street

Similar:

aforementioned; aforesaid; said (being the one previously mentioned or spoken of)

identical; selfsame; very (being the exact same one; not any other:)

Antonym:

other (not the same one or ones already mentioned or implied)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Closely similar or comparable in kind or quality or quantity or degree

Context example:

the same day next year

Similar:

cookie-cutter (having the same appearance (as if mass-produced))

synoptic; synoptical (presenting or taking the same point of view; used especially with regard to the first three gospels of the New Testament)

one (of the same kind or quality)

identical; indistinguishable (exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different)

homophonic (having the same sound)

duplicate (identically copied from an original)

comparable; corresponding; like (conforming in every respect)

assonant (having the same sound (especially the same vowel sound) occurring in successive stressed syllables)

Also:

like; similar (resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination)

equal (having the same quantity, value, or measure as another)

similar (marked by correspondence or resemblance)

unvaried; unvarying (lacking variety)

Attribute:

sameness (the quality of being alike)

Antonym:

different (unlike in nature or quality or form or degree)

Derivation:

sameness (the quality of being alike)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Equal in amount or value

Synonyms:

like; same

Context example:

the same number

Also:

equal (having the same quantity, value, or measure as another)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Unchanged in character or nature

Context example:

his attitude is the same as ever

Similar:

unchanged (not made or become different)

Derivation:

sameness (the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety)

 Context examples 

I never mind going through anything, where a friend is concerned; that is my disposition, and John is just the same; he has amazing strong feelings.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

A green-covered book appeared, with the same picture inside, and a few words written by their mother, which made their one present very precious in their eyes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

At the same time, he had a definite motive also.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I did not take any, but it was a comfort to know it was there all the same.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If more than one value occurs with the same greatest frequency, each value is a mode.

(Mode, NCI Thesaurus)

It is not given us to know how some animals know laughter, and know when they are being laughed at; but it was this same way that White Fang knew it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Sometimes used as a synonym for myeloid; for example, acute myeloid leukemia and acute myelogenous leukemia are the same disease.

(Myelogenous, NCI Dictionary)

And did the man whom you pursued travel in the same fashion?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Sometimes used as a synonym for myelogenous; for example, acute myeloid leukemia and acute myelogenous leukemia are the same disease.

(Myeloid, NCI Dictionary)

Before them stood a little man about the same size as the Munchkins.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)