an example, instance, or occurrence: a case of carelessness, a case of measles
a person being treated or helped, as by a doctor or social worker
any individual or matter requiring or undergoing official or formal observation, study, investigation, etc.
a statement of the facts or circumstances, as in a law court, esp. the argument of one side: the case for the defendant
supporting or convincing arguments or evidence; proper grounds for a statement or action: he has no case
a legal action or suit, esp. one studied or cited as a precedent
☆ Informal a peculiar or eccentric person
☆ Informal an infatuation; crush
Gram.
the syntactic relationship shown in highly inflected languages such as German and Latin by changes in the form of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives
the form that a noun, pronoun, or adjective takes to show such relationship
any of the sets of such forms: the accusative case
in Modern English and other languages with relatively few inflections, such a relationship, whether expressed by word order or by inflected forms; also, any of these forms or sets of forms, esp. the Modern English subjective, objective, and possessive forms of pronouns and possessive form of nouns