GENITIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genitive mean? 

• GENITIVE (noun)
  The noun GENITIVE has 1 sense:

1. the case expressing ownership

  Familiarity information: GENITIVE used as a noun is very rare.

• GENITIVE (adjective)
  The adjective GENITIVE has 1 sense:

1. serving to express or indicate possession

  Familiarity information: GENITIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENITIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The case expressing ownership

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

genitive; genitive case; possessive; possessive case

Hypernyms ("genitive" is a kind of...):

oblique; oblique case (any grammatical case other than the nominative)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "genitive"):

attributive genitive; attributive genitive case (a word in the genitive case that is used as an attributive adjective)

• GENITIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Serving to express or indicate possession

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

genitive; possessive

Context example:

the genitive endings

Domain category:

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))

Pertainym:

genitive case (the case expressing ownership)