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Nominative

Nominative Meaning & Definition
Nominative Definition And Meaning

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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