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nominative

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: nominative

1
 adj
appointed by nomination
2
 adjn
serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb
the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: nominative
1

adj appointed by nomination

Synonyms:
nominated
appointed, appointive
subject to appointment

adj named; bearing the name of a specific person

“nominative shares of stock”
Synonyms:
nominal
specified
clearly and explicitly stated
2

adj serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb

“nominative noun endings”
“predicate nominative”

n the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb

Synonyms:
nominative case, subject case
Antonyms:
oblique, oblique case
any grammatical case other than the nominative
Type of:
case, grammatical case
nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence
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