{
    "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."
}