LOCATIVE

Etymology

Adjective

locative (not comparable)

(grammar) Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein.

Noun

locative (plural locatives)

(grammar) The locative case.

Source: Wiktionary


Loc"a*tive, a. (Gram.)

Definition: Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein; as, a locative adjective; locative case of a noun.

– n.

Definition: The locative case.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

6 May 2025

HEEDLESS

(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”


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