selfsame

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments  · 
The earmark of your coast-born South Carolinian is the selfsame, absolute sureness of himself, his place, his people, in the essential scheme of things.

View all »
Definitions (4)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. adjective Being the very same; identical.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (1)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • O'Donnell, in defending the so-called barbarians, builds a powerful case for the selfsame —  The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
  • Bill Kristol's last column, printed today in the selfsame pages of the New York Times, to which I say there aren't enough pies in the world for an appropriate response: —  Firedoglake
  • And his June 2006 complaint that those selfsame critics "wave the white flag of surrender." —  Philly.com - Latest Videos
  • This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few - the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. —  RVABlogs
  • Thus, these selfsame poor, these same suffering people, end up suffering even MORE of the deprivations of not having enough money to buy the stuff they need, by (wait for the punch line!) having things cost more! —  The Daily Reckoning
 

Tags

selfsame hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 56 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images

Add a related word »
Related

Roget's II Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

Allen's Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Etymologies (1)

Toggle Century etymologies Century Dictionary (1)

  1. = Danish selvsamme; as self, adjective, + same.
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

/ˈsɛlfseɪm/
by American Heritage

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word several times a year.

Recently looked up

bristly · industrialist · indeterminism · argumentative · bolete

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

minty-fresh death threat · please stop sucking the monkeybread · beauregard · unicycle hockey · Ipanema