different between madam vs same

English

Alternative forms

• madame

Etymology

From Middle English madame, from Old French madame, from ma (“my”) + dame (“lady”), from post-classical Latin mea domina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæd.?m/

Noun

madam (plural madams)

1. (dated in the UK) A polite form of address for a woman or lady.

   Mrs Grey wondered if the outfit she was trying on made her look fat. The sales assistant just said, “It suits you, madam”.

   Later, Mrs Grey was sitting in her favourite tea shop. “Would madam like the usual cream cakes and patisserie with her tea?” the waitress asked.

2. The mistress of a household.
3. (colloquial) A conceited or quarrelsome girl.

   Selina kept pushing and shoving during musical chairs. The nursery school teacher said she was a bad-tempered little madam.

4. (slang) A woman who runs a brothel, particularly one that specializes in finding prostitutes for rich and important clients.

   After she grew too old to work as a prostitute, she became a madam.

Synonyms

• (polite form of address): dame, woman, lady, matron, mistress
• (woman who runs a brothel): abbess (archaic), bawd, lady abbess, nookie-bookie, whoremistress, (female) brothel-keeper

Coordinate terms

• (polite form of address): sir, gentleman
• (woman who runs a brothel): pimp (mostly for males), brothel-keeper

Related terms

• madame
• ma'am

Translations

Verb

madam (third-person singular simple present madams, present participle madaming, simple past and past participle madamed)

1. (transitive) To address as "madam".
   • 1905, William Clark Russell, The Yarn of Old Harbour Town (page 208)

     He bowed to me, he madamed me, he was throughout as gentlemanlike and respectful as I had ever found him when we met at Old Harbour House or in Old Harbour Town.

   • 1988, Gahan Wilson, Eddy Deco's Last Caper (page 123)

     "I don't care," she said. "They'll be dead in a few minutes if you'll just do your job. Stop madaming me and get to work."

See also

• pimp
• pimping

Anagrams

• Damma, damma, ?amma

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French madame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma??d?m/
• Hyphenation: ma?dam
• Rhymes: -?m

Noun

madam f (plural madammen or madams, diminutive madammeke n or madammeken n or madammetje n)

1. madam, lady
2. madam, female counterpart of a pimp

Derived terms

• kakmadam

Descendants

• Afrikaans: madam

Middle English

Noun

madam

1. Alternative form of madame

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French madame.

Noun

madam m (definite singular madammen, indefinite plural madammer, definite plural madammene)

1. madam

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French madame.

Noun

madam f (definite singular madamma, indefinite plural madammer, definite plural madammene)

1. madam

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French madame.

Noun

madam (definite accusative madam?, plural madamlar)

1. madam

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /se?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m
• Homophone: Sejm

Etymology 1

From Middle English same, from Old Norse samr (“same”) and/or Old English same, sama (“same”) in the phrase sw? same (sw?) (“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”), Dutch samen (“together”), Danish samme (“same”), Swedish samma (“same”), Norwegian Bokmål samme (“same”), Norwegian Nynorsk same (“same”), Gothic ???????????????? (sama), a weak adjectival form, Ancient Greek ???? (homós, “same”), Old Irish som, Russian ?????? (sámyj), Sanskrit ?? (samá), Persian ??? (ham, “also, same”).

Adjective

same (not comparable)

1. Not different or other; not another or others; not different as regards self; selfsame; identical.
2. Lacking variety from; indistinguishable.

3. Similar, alike.
4. Used to express the unity of an object or person which has various different descriptions or qualities.

5. A reply of confirmation of identity.
   • ca. 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act V, scene III:

     King Lear: This is a dull sight. Are you not Kent?

     Kent: The same.[1]

   • 1994, Clerks:

     Dante: Whose house was it?

     Blue-Collar Man: Dominick Bambino's.

     Randal: "Babyface" Bambino? The gangster?

     Blue-Collar Man: The same. [2]

Usage notes

• This word is usually construed with the (except after demonstratives: "this same..." etc.). This can make it difficult to distinguish between the simple adjective and the adjective used absolutely or pronominally.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Derived terms

Translations

Pronoun

same

1. The identical thing, ditto.

2. Something similar, something of the identical type.

3. (formal, often law) It or them, without a connotation of similarity.

4. (India, common) It or them, as above, meaning the last object mentioned, mainly as complement: on the same, for the same.

Usage notes

• This word is commonly used as the same.

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

same

1. (Internet slang) Indicates the speaker's strong approval or agreement with the previous material.

Synonyms

• this, +1, like
• IAWTP

Etymology 2

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

Adverb

same (comparative more same, superlative most same)

1. (obsolete or Britain dialectal) Together.

Further reading

• same in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• same in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• same at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• AMEs, ASME, Ames, MSAE, Mesa, eams, mase, meas, meas., mesa, seam

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Adverb

same

1. equally

French

Adjective

same (plural sames)

1. Sami

Noun

same m or f (plural sames)

1. Sami

same m (uncountable)

1. Sami

Derived terms

• same d'Inari

Hadza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /same/

Verb

same

1. (transitive) to eat

Related terms

• seme

Japanese

Romanization

same

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

same m (definite singular samen, indefinite plural samer, definite plural samene)

1. Sami; member of the Sami people

Synonyms

• lapp (derogatory)

Related terms

• samisk

References

• “same” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²s??m?/

Etymology 1

From Northern Sami sápmi.

Noun

same m (definite singular samen, indefinite plural samar, definite plural samane)

1. Sami; member of the Sami people

Synonyms

• lapp (derogatory)

Related terms

• samisk

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sami. Akin to English same.

Determiner

same

1. same

2. no matter

Derived terms

• med det same

References

• “same” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

same

1. vocative singular of sam?

Adjective

same

1. masculine/neuter locative singular of sama
2. masculine accusative plural of sama
3. feminine vocative singular of sama

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa.m?/

Adjective

same

1. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural of sam

Swedish

Etymology

From Northern Sami Sámi, from one of the Sami languages, of uncertain origin/meaning, but possibly related to Proto-Balto-Slavic *?em? (“land”). More at Sápmi and Sami.

Noun

same c

1. Sami; person of the Sami people

Declension

Synonyms

• lapp (now often derogatory)

Related terms

• samiska

References