same
/seɪm/ adjective A1- Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical. · 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.
- Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.
- Similar, alike. · You have the same hair I do!
- Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities. · Round here it can be cloudy and sunny even in the same day.· We were all going in the same direction.
- A reply of confirmation of identity.
From the library
Tomorrow morning I start for Paris; four days to go, and the same to return, with one day to discharge the commission entrusted to me, is all the time I shall be absent.
“The truth is,” replied Dantès, “that I am too happy for noisy mirth; if that is what you meant by your observation, my worthy friend, you are right; joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.”
“All the same,” said the Scarecrow, “she needs a heart as much as the Tin Woodman.”
The Morrels have been shipowners from father to son; and there was a Morrel who served in the same regiment with me when I was in garrison at Valence.’”
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