Nominative Definition

nŏmə-nātĭv
adjective
Appointed or filled by appointment.
Webster's New World
Nominated as a candidate for office.
American Heritage
Having the name of a person on it, as a stock certificate.
Webster's New World
Designating, of, or in the case of the subject of a finite verb.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
The nominative case.
Webster's New World
A word in this case.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Nominative

Noun

Singular:
nominative
Plural:
nominatives

Origin of Nominative

  • From Middle English nominatyf, either via Anglo-Norman nominatif or directly from Latin nōminatīvus (“pertaining to naming, nominative”)

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Nominative Sentence Examples

  • The legislative council is a consultative body, partly elective, partly nominative.

  • The relative pronouns are nominative and accusative a, oblique cases ydd, yr, y.

  • These belong to a group of four auxiliary particles called te ni wo ha (or we), which serve to mark the cases of nouns, te (or de) being the sign of the instrumental ablative; ni that of the dative; wo that of the objective, and wa that of the nominative.

  • In the meantime we have proper names to argue from; and these give us at least the significant indication that the Hittite nominative ended in s and the accusative in m.

  • Thus Delitzsch formerly derived the name from an Akkadian god, I or Ia; or from the Semitic nominative ending, Yau; 7 but this deity has since disappeared from the pantheon of Assyriologists.

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Words Starting With

NNONOM

Words Ending With

EVEIVE

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Words Starting With N and Ending With E

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10 Letter Words10 Letter Words Starting With N10 Letter Words Ending With E