About The Word Nominative
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Nominative
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What's The Definition Of Nominative?
[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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Nominative: appointed | appointive | nominal | nominated | nominative case | specified | subject case Related Terms | Find terms related to Nominative: 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 See Also | case | grammatical case Nominative In Webster's Dictionary \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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