Same Definition

sām

adjective

Being the very one; identical.

Webster's New World

Alike in kind, quality, amount, or degree; corresponding.

Webster's New World

Unchanged; not different.

To look the same as ever.

Webster's New World

Conforming in every detail.

According to the same rules as before.

American Heritage

Being the one previously mentioned or indicated; aforesaid.

American Heritage

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adverb

In the same way; in like manner.

Webster's New World

(obsolete or UK dialectal) Together.

Wiktionary

pronoun

The same person or thing.

Webster's New World

Someone or something identical with another.

She ordered the Greek salad. I'll have the same.

American Heritage

Someone or something previously mentioned or described.

When you have filled out the form, please remit same to this office.

American Heritage

(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 (US Patent 5,467,217)

Methods of selectively distributing data in a computer network and systems using the same (US Patent 7,191,208)

Wiktionary

A district capital of Manufahi District in East Timor.

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Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Same

From Middle English same, from Old Norse samr (“same"), and/or from Old English same (“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"), Danish samme (“same"), Swedish samma (“same"), Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌼𐌰 (sama), a weak adjectival form, Ancient Greek ὁμός (homós, “same"), Old Irish som, Russian самый (sámyj), Sanskrit सम (sama), Persian هم (ham, “also, same").

From Wiktionary
From Middle English same, samme, samen, (also ysame, isame), from Old English samen (“together"), from Proto-Germanic *samana- (“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").

From Wiktionary
Middle English from Old Norse samr sem-¹ in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition