Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Appointed to office.
- adj. Nominated as a candidate for office.
- adj. Having or bearing a person's name: nominative shares.
- adj. Grammar Of, relating to, or being the case of the subject of a finite verb (as I in I wrote the letter) and of words identified with the subject of a copula, such as a predicate nominative (as children in These are his children).
- n. Grammar The nominative case.
- n. Grammar A word or form in the nominative case.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Noting the subject: applied to that form of noun or other word having case-inflection which is used when the word is the subject of a sentence, or to the word itself when it stands in that relation: as, the nominative case of a Latin word; the nominative word in a sentence.
- n. In grammar, the nominative case; also, a nominative word. Abbreviated nominative
Wiktionary
- adj. grammar Giving a name; naming; designating; — said of that case or form of noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.
- n. The nominative case.
- n. A noun in the nominative case.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Gram.) Giving a name; naming; designating; -- said of that case or form of noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb
- adj. appointed by nomination
- n. the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb
- adj. named; bearing the name of a specific person
Etymologies
- From Middle English nominatyf, either via Anglo-Norman nominatif or directly from Latin nōminatīvus ("pertaining to naming, nominative") (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Also referred to as "aptronyms", New Scientist journalist John Hoyland coined the term "nominative determinism" for these strange cases of people who seem inexorably drawn to their profession by virtue of their name.”
“But given that it is the same in nominative and accusative cases, just like a noun, it is a little surprising that it‘s possessive is a special case, especially since its and it’s sound identical.”
“How about, um, the singular and plural nominative forms for the Finnish word for "girl"?”
“_ Observe that the final - ă of the nominative is short, while the final - ā of the ablative is long, as,”
“The New Scientist gave it the name nominative determinism - the idea that there is a link between people's names and their occupation.”
“A group of women, who dislike the notion of nominative determinism and therefore eschew a title, has written to the ministry, demanding an explanation.”
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“English is called a nominative-accusative language because both transitive and intransitive verbs take subjects.”
“They managed it, of course (otherwise they would have failed their exams), but at the expense of making them worry for the rest of their lives about other constructions where there was a choice between subjective and objective (also called nominative and accusative) pronouns.”
“As the two case system “decayed” into the no case system we have today except for the pronoun declensions, the nominative was the form of most nouns that disappeared.”
“To this effect, let me defer to Huntington Brown, in his article in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetics, where he writes: "Lausberg [the author of the classic work Handbook of Literary Rhetoric: A Foundation for Literary Study] finds the commonest form of anacoluthon to be the so-called nominative absolute.”
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a case of cases
evoking a kind of heavy chest of drawers, for me. Latin (and German) at 11; now Finnish, and a fascination for what else is out there.
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