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Definition of: vocative
(vok′ə·tiv) adjective
1. Pertaining to or used in the act of calling.
2. Gram. In some inflected languages, denoting the case of a noun, pronoun, or adjective used in direct address: The name “Brutus” is in the vocative case in “Et tu, Brute.”
—noun Gram.
1. The vocative case.
2. A word in this case. [<F, fem. of vocatif <L vocativus <vocare call]
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