Word Study
nominately |
nominating address |
nominating speech |
nomination |
nominatival |
nominative
| nominative case
| nominatively
| nominator
| nominee
| nominor
nominative
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun nominative has 1 sense
- nominative(n = noun.communication) nominative case, subject case - the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb; Array is a kind of case, grammatical case
Antonym: oblique
Adjective nominative has 3 senses
- nominative(a = adj.pert) Array - serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb; "nominative noun endings"; "predicate nominative"
- nominative(s = adj.all) nominal - named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative shares of stock"
- nominative(s = adj.all) nominated - appointed by nomination; Array Derived forms verb nominate1, verb nominate4, verb nominate3, verb nominate2
CIDE DICTIONARY
nominative, a. [L. nominativus belonging to a name, nominative.].
Giving a name; naming; designating; -- said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
nominative, n. & adj.
--n. Gram.
1 the case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives, expressing the subject of a verb.
2 a word in this case.
--adj.
1 Gram. of or in this case.
2 of, or appointed by, nomination (as distinct from election).
--n. Gram.
1 the case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives, expressing the subject of a verb.
2 a word in this case.
--adj.
1 Gram. of or in this case.
2 of, or appointed by, nomination (as distinct from election).
Derivative
nominatival adj.
Etymology
ME f. OF nominatif -ive or L nominativus (as NOMINATE), transl. Gk onomastike (ptosis case)
THESAURUS
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
For further exploring for "nominative" in Webster Dictionary Online
