I Seɪm Children Adjective Lived House Twenty Years

• we have lived in the same house for twenty years.
• our children go to the same school as theirs.
• she's still the same fun-loving person that i knew at college.
• this one works in exactly the same way as the other.

same

1. exactly the one or ones referred to or mentioned; not different
• We have lived in the same house for twenty years.
• Our children go to the same school as theirs.
• She's still the same fun-loving person that I knew at college.
• This one works in exactly the same way as the other.
• They promise to meet again in the exact same place six months later.
• They both said much the same thing.
• He used the very same (= exactly the same) words.
• I resigned last Friday and left that same day.
• I was relieved and sad at the same time.
• Gary and I look more or less the same age.
• I recognized a lot of the same people.

Extra Examples

• That's not quite the same thing, is it?
• We can do the two things at one and the same time.
2. exactly like the one or ones referred to or mentioned
• I bought the same car as yours (= another car of that type).
• She was wearing the same dress that I had on.
• The same thing happened to me last week.
• Most parents tend to raise their children in much the same way they were raised
• Other countries don't suffer from the same kinds of health problems we do.
• Older adults may not get the same level of protection from the vaccine.

Extra Examples

• Your new job will be essentially the same as your old one.
• They both taste just the same to me.
• Your dress is nearly the same as mine.
3. used to say that a situation has not changed at all
• ‘How's it going?’ ‘Oh, same old, same old.’
4. used to say that a situation or the excuses, products or entertainment being offered have not improved at all
• It's the same old story  —budget cuts and government neglect.
• The band's new album includes the same old stuff they've been playing forever.

Word Origin

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