Meaning of NOMINATIVE
| Pronunciation: | | 'nâminutiv
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- [n] the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb
- [adj] appointed by nomination
- [adj] named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative shares of stock"
- [adj] (grammar) serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb; "nominative noun endings"; "predicate nominative"
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| | Synonyms: | | appointed, appointive, nominal, nominated, nominative case, specified, subject case |
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| | Antonyms: | | oblique, oblique case | | |
| | See Also: | | case, grammatical case | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Nom"i*na*tive\, a. [L. nominativus belonging to a
name, nominative.] (Gram.)
Giving a name; naming; designating; -- said of that case or
form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.
-- n. The nominative case.
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| | Related Terms: | | abessive, ablative, accusative, adessive, allative, appellative, approximative, byname, case, cognominal, common case, dative, delative, denominative, diminutive, elative, epithetic, eponymic, eponymous, essive, formal, genitive, honorific, hypocoristic, illative, in name only, inessive, instrumental, lative, local case, locative, nominal, objective case, oblique case, perlative, possessive case, prepositional, quasi, self-called, self-christened, self-styled, so-called, soi-disant, subject case, sublative, superessive, terminative, titular, translative, vocative, would-be |
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