ATTRIBUTIVE GENITIVE CASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does attributive genitive case mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ATTRIBUTIVE GENITIVE CASE (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 case" is a kind of...):

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