same

Etymology 1

From Middle English same, from Old Norse samr (“same”) and/or Old English same, sama (“same”) in the phrase swā same (swā) (“in like manner, in the same way (as)”), both from Proto-Germanic *samaz (“same”), from Proto-Indo-European *somHós (“same”). Cognate with Scots samin (“same, like, together”), Dutch samen (“together”), Danish samme (“same”), Swedish samma (“same”), Norwegian Bokmål samme (“same”), Norwegian Nynorsk same (“same”), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰 (sama), a weak adjectival form, Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same”), Old Irish som, Russian са́мый (sámyj), Sanskrit सम (samá), Persian هم (ham, “also, same”).

adj

1. 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.
   Peter and Anna went to the same high school: the high school to which Peter went is the high school to which Anna went.
   Our space may be really same (of equal curvature), but its degree of curvature may change as a whole with the time. 1885, William Kingdon Clifford, chapter IV, in The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences
2. Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.
3. Similar, alike.
   You have the same hair I do!
   She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill. 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court
4. 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.
5. A reply of confirmation of identity.
   Dante: Whose house was it? Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's. Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster? Blue-Collar Man: The same. http://www.whysanity.net/monos/clerks5.html 1994, Clerks

adv

1. (used with the) The same way; in the same manner; to the same extent, equally.
   A mother loves all her children the same.
   My hometown looked much the same as when I'd left 10 years ago.
   It took all night to find our hotel room, as we forgot our room number and each door looked the same.

pron

1. The identical thing, ditto.
   The same can be said of him.
   It's the same everywhere.
2. Something similar, something of the identical type.
   She's having apple pie? I'll have the same. You two are just the same.
   When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies. 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 5, in Mr. Pratt's Patients
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(title of US Patent 5,467,217)
   Methods of selectively distributing data in a computer network and systems using the same(title of 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.

intj

1. (Internet slang) Indicates the speaker's strong approval or agreement with the previous material.

Etymology 2

From Middle English same, samme, samen, (also ysame, isame), from Old English samen (“together”), from Proto-Germanic *samanai (“together”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (“one, together”). Cognate with Scots samin (“together”), Dutch samen (“together”), German zusammen (“together”), Swedish samman (“together”), Icelandic saman (“together”).

adv

1. (obsolete or UK dialectal) Together.