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Definition of self-same in English English dictionary
- Very same; exactly the same
But you can imagine my surprise when I angled said state-of-the-art bins to the street, watched the long black car as it rolled up and saw the self-same guy step out of it.
- emphasis You use self-same when you want to emphasize that the person or thing mentioned is exactly the same as the one mentioned previously. You find yourself worshipped by the self-same people who beat you up at school
- selfsame
- {a} numerically the same, the very same
- selfsame
- being the exact same one; not any other: ; "this is the identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the very thing he said yesterday"; "the very man I want to see"
- selfsame
- exactly the same
- selfsame
- Precisely the same; the very same; identical
- selfsame
- {s} identical, exactly the same