NOMINATIVE CASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nominative case mean? 

• NOMINATIVE CASE (noun)
  The noun NOMINATIVE CASE has 1 sense:

1. the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb

  Familiarity information: NOMINATIVE CASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOMINATIVE CASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

nominative; nominative case; subject case

Hypernyms ("nominative case" is a kind of...):

case; grammatical case (nouns or pronouns or adjectives (often marked by inflection) related in some way to other words in a sentence)