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Nominative

noun
1.
The category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb.  Synonyms: nominative case, subject case.
adjective
1.
Serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb.  "Predicate nominative"
2.
Named; bearing the name of a specific person.  Synonym: nominal.
3.
Appointed by nomination.  Synonym: nominated.



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"Nominative" Quotes from Famous Books



... description of the Cases of Nouns applies especially to the Oblique Cases; that is to say, to all except the Nominative Case. ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... also the name of a Gandharva. Asvatari ought to be the wife of one of the two, but I am not sure that this conjecture is right. The commentator does not say who this Asvatari is, or what tradition or myth is alluded to. Vimalabodha reads Asvatari in the nominative case, and explains, Asvatari is the sun, and as the sun with his rays brings back the moon which has been sunk in the ocean and the infernal regions, so will I bring back ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI
... self-government, ending in a central Parliament. The powers in London approved it, with a modification which, looking backward, he pronounced a vital wound. He made both the Houses of Parliament elective; the modification made one nominative. It spoiled the ...
— The Romance of a Pro-Consul - Being The Personal Life And Memoirs Of The Right Hon. Sir - George Grey, K.C.B. • James Milne
... of cases, the nominative and the vocative being interchanged in the following verse (I. ...
— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch
... boorish mind! Grammar teaches us the laws of the verb and nominative case, as well as of the ...
— The Learned Women • Moliere (Poquelin)


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