adjective. undefined

adjective. Appointed to office.

adjective. Nominated as a candidate for office.

adjective. Having or bearing a person's name.

adjective. 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).

noun. The nominative case.

noun. A word or form in the nominative case.

Noting the subject: applied to that form of a 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.

noun. In grammar, the nominative case; also, a nominative word. Abbreviated nominative

adjective. Giving a name; naming; designating; -- said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.

adjective. Giving a name; naming; designating; — said of that case or form of a noun which stands as the subject of a finite verb.

noun. The nominative case.

noun. A noun in the nominative case.

adjective. serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb

adjective. appointed by nomination

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

adjective. named; bearing the name of a specific person

"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."

nominative absolute  

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