Usually means: Identical, exactly the same entity.
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  1. selfsame: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. selfsame: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. selfsame: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. selfsame: Collins English Dictionary
  5. selfsame: Vocabulary.com
  6. selfsame: Wordnik
  7. selfsame: Wiktionary
  8. selfsame: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. selfsame: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. selfsame: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. selfsame: Dictionary.com
  12. selfsame: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Selfsame: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. selfsame: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Selfsame: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. selfsame: Free Dictionary
  17. selfsame: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. selfsame: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. selfsame: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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.

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