nominative

The definition of nominative is a position that is filled by someone being chosen, or something that has a person's name on it.

(adjective)

An example of nominative is the position of U.S. president.

See nominative in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

Origin: ME nomenatyf < OFr nominatif < L nominativus, belonging to a name < pp. of nominare: see nominate

noun

Origin: L nominativus (casus)

See nominative in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

a. Appointed to office.
b. Nominated as a candidate for office.
Having or bearing a person's name: nominative shares.
(-nə-tĭv) Grammar Of, relating to, or being the case of the subject of a finite verb (as I in I wrote the letter) and of words identified with the subject of a copula, such as a predicate nominative (as children in These are his children).