NOMINATIVE
nominated, nominative
(adjective) appointed by nomination
nominative, nominal
(adjective) named; bearing the name of a specific person; “nominative shares of stock”
nominative
(adjective) serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb; “nominative noun endings”; “predicate nominative”
nominative, nominative case, subject case
(noun) the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
nominative (not comparable)
Giving a name; naming; designating.
(grammar) Being in that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.
Making a selection or nomination; choosing.
Noun
nominative (plural nominatives)
The nominative case.
A noun in the nominative case.
Source: Wiktionary
Nom"i*na*tive, a. Etym: [L. nominativus belonging to a name, nominative.] (Gram.)
Definition: Giving a name; naming; designating; -- said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.
– n.
Definition: The nominative case.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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