same

About 462.68 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective 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.

2. adjective Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.
3. adjective Similar, alike.

   You have the same hair I do!

4. adjective 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.

5. adjective A reply of confirmation of identity.
6. adverb The same way; in the same manner; to the same extent, unchanged; equally.

   A mother loves all her children the same.

7. pronoun The identical thing, ditto.

   The same can be said of him.

8. pronoun Something similar, something of the identical type.

   She's having apple pie? I'll have the same. You two are just the same.

Similar words

selfsame identical one and the same comparable equivalent equal corresponding synoptic duplicate synoptical

Often followed by

time as way thing year manner day in period