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   same

   /seɪm/

   adjective

   • 1. identical; not different: "she was saying the same thing over and over" Similar the identicalthe very sameselfsameone and the samethe veryOpposite anotherdifferent
   • ▪ not having changed; unchanged: "he's worked at the same place for quite a few years" Similar unchangingunchangedchangelessunvaryingunvariedinvariableconstantconsistentuniformregularOpposite differentvarying
   • ▪ used to emphasize that one is referring to a particular, unique person or thing: "people will always notice if you wear the same shirt two days running"
   • ▪ referring to a person or thing just mentioned: "that same year I went to Boston" Similar selfsameaforesaidaforementionedOpposite another
   • 2. of an identical type; exactly similar: "they all wore the same clothes" Similar matchingidenticalalikeduplicatecarbon-copytwinpairedcoupleddoubleindistinguishableinterchangeablecorrespondingequivalentparallel(all) of a piecelikelike (two) peas in a podcomparablesimilarcorrelativecongruenttallyingagreeingconcordantconsonantunchangingunchangedchangelessunvaryingunvariedinvariableconstantconsistentuniformregularOpposite differentdissimilardifferentvarying

   pronoun

   • 1. the same thing as something previously mentioned: "I'll resign and encourage everyone else to do the same"
   • ▪ people or things that are identical or share the same characteristics: "there are several brands and they're not all the same"
   • 2. (chiefly in formal or legal use) the person or thing just mentioned: "put the tailboard up and secure same with a length of wire"

   adverb

   • 1. similarly; in the same way: "treating women the same as men"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old Norse sami, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit sama, Greek homos.

   Scrabble Points: 6

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