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vocatives

vocatives is the plural of vocative.

Meaning of vocative

Noun

vocative (plural vocatives)

  1. The vocative case
  2. A word in the vocative case
  3. A vocative expression
  4. (rare) Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing; an entreaty, an invocation.
    • [T]he two latter will hardly come neither, if they think it will be to hear your whining vocatives.1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter L”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; [a]nd sold by John Osborn, […]...

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Questions about vocatives

What is vocatives the plural of?
Vocatives is the plural of vocative.

Words near vocatives in the dictionary

  1. vocations
  2. vocative
  3. vocative case
  4. vocative cases
  5. vocatively
  6. vocatives
  7. vocd
  8. Voce
  9. voce di petto
  10. voce di testa
  11. voceri

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