nominative case

1. 1.

   the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb

   Synonymsnominativesubject case

   Broadercase

Questions about nominative case

What does nominative case mean?

nominative case means "the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb".

What is another word for nominative case?

Close synonyms include nominative, subject case. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nominative case a common word?

nominative case is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.