ATTRIBUTIVE GENITIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does attributive genitive mean? 

• ATTRIBUTIVE GENITIVE (noun)
  The noun ATTRIBUTIVE GENITIVE has 1 sense:

1. a word in the genitive case that is used as an attributive adjective

  Familiarity information: ATTRIBUTIVE GENITIVE used as a noun is very rare.

• ATTRIBUTIVE GENITIVE (adjective)
  The adjective ATTRIBUTIVE GENITIVE has 1 sense:

1. a word in the genitive case used as an attributive adjective

  Familiarity information: ATTRIBUTIVE GENITIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTRIBUTIVE GENITIVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A word in the genitive case that is used as an attributive adjective

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

attributive genitive; attributive genitive case

Context example:

an example of the attributive genetive is 'John's' in 'John's mother'

Hypernyms ("attributive genitive" is a kind of...):

genitive; genitive case; possessive; possessive case (the case expressing ownership)

• ATTRIBUTIVE GENITIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A word in the genitive case used as an attributive adjective

Context example:

an example of the attributive genitive is 'John's' in 'John's mother'

Similar:

attributive; prenominal (of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify)

Domain category:

grammar (the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics))