VOCATIVE CASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vocative case mean? 

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

1. the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VOCATIVE CASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

vocative; vocative case

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

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