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Nominative

adjective

Serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb. "Predicate nominative"

Named; bearing the name of a specific person. Synonym: nominal.

Appointed by nomination. Synonym: nominated.

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Etymology of 'Nominative'

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"Nominative" Quotes from Famous Books

... dead ('corpse' is in the singular, as if a collective noun), so numerous that no burial-places could hold them; and no ceremonial attended them, but they were rudely flung anywhere by anybody (no nominative is given), with no accustomed voice of mourning, but in gloomy silence. It is like Defoe's picture of the dead-cart in the plague of London. Such is ever the end of departing from God—songs palsied into silence or turned into wailing when the judgment bursts; death ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII • Alexander Maclaren

... receiving an action; in the third, as possessing something. So the word bear in these sentences has three different uses. These uses of nouns are called Cases. The use of a noun as subject is called the Nominative Case; its use as object is called the Objective Case; and its use to denote possession ...

— Graded Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg

Words linked to "Nominative" : nominated, grammar, appointive, oblique, specified, grammatical case, case, nominate, appointed