Usually means: Identical, exactly the same entity.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word Selfsame:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. selfsame: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. selfsame: Merriam-Webster
  3. selfsame: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. selfsame: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. selfsame: Collins English Dictionary
  6. selfsame: Vocabulary.com
  7. selfsame: Wordnik
  8. selfsame: Wiktionary
  9. selfsame: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. selfsame: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. selfsame: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. selfsame: Dictionary.com
  13. selfsame: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Selfsame: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. selfsame: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Selfsame: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. selfsame: FreeDictionary.org
  18. selfsame: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. selfsame: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. selfsame: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. selfsame: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (selfsame)

▸ adjective:  Chiefly preceded by the: precisely the same; the very same; the same not only in being similar but in being identical.
▸ noun:  (archaic) Chiefly preceded by the: precisely the same person or thing.

Similar:
same, one and the same, identical, very, self-same, selflike, self, very same, same exact, exact same, more...

Types:
identical, equal, matching, corresponding, more...


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same, one and the same, identical, very, self-same, selflike, self, very same, same exact, exact same, more...

Types:
identical, equal, matching, corresponding, more...



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