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{
"term": "same",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "exactly the one or ones referred to or mentioned; not different",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "We have lived in the same house for twenty years."
},
{
"text": "Our children go to the **same** school **as** theirs."
},
{
"text": "She's still the **same** fun-loving person **that** I knew at college."
},
{
"text": "This one works in **exactly the same** way as the other."
},
{
"text": "They promise to meet again in the **exact same** place six months later."
},
{
"text": "They both said **much the same** thing."
},
{
"text": "He used **the very same** *(= exactly the same)* words."
},
{
"text": "I resigned last Friday and left that same day."
},
{
"text": "I was relieved and sad **at the same time**."
},
{
"text": "Gary and I look more or less the same age."
},
{
"text": "I recognized a lot of the same people."
},
{
"text": "That's not quite the same thing, is it?"
},
{
"text": "We can do the two things at one and the same time."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
"adverb": ["exactly", "just", "precisely"],
"preposition": ["as"],
"phrases": ["one and the same"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "exactly like the one or ones referred to or mentioned",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "I bought the **same** car **as** yours *(= another car of that type)*."
},
{
"text": "She was wearing the **same** dress **that** I had on."
},
{
"text": "The same thing happened to me last week."
},
{
"text": "Most parents tend to raise their children **in **much **the same way** they were raised"
},
{
"text": "Other countries don't suffer from the **same kinds of** health problems we do."
},
{
"text": "Older adults may not get the same level of protection from the vaccine."
},
{
"text": "Your new job will be essentially the same as your old one."
},
{
"text": "They both taste just the same to me."
},
{
"text": "Your dress is nearly the same as mine."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verbs": ["be", "feel", "look"],
"adverb": ["exactly", "just", "precisely"],
"preposition": ["as"],
"phrases": ["one and the same"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that a situation has not changed at all",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "‘How's it going?’ ‘Oh, same old, same old.’"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that a situation or the excuses, products or entertainment being offered have not improved at all",
"labels": "(informal)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "It's the same old story —budget cuts and government neglect."
},
{
"text": "The band's new album includes the same old stuff they've been playing forever."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/seɪm/",
"audio": "sa/same/same__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/seɪm/",
"audio": "sa/same/same__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old Norse sami, from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit sama, Greek homos."
}