POSSESSIVE CASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does possessive case mean? 

• POSSESSIVE CASE (noun)
  The noun POSSESSIVE CASE has 1 sense:

1. the case expressing ownership

  Familiarity information: POSSESSIVE CASE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSSESSIVE CASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The case expressing ownership

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

genitive; genitive case; possessive; possessive case

Hypernyms ("possessive case" is a kind of...):

oblique; oblique case (any grammatical case other than the nominative)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "possessive case"):

attributive genitive; attributive genitive case (a word in the genitive case that is used as an attributive adjective)