objective case

1. 1.

   the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb

   Synonymsaccusativeaccusative case

   Broaderoblique

Questions about objective case

What does objective case mean?

objective case means "the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb".

What is another word for objective case?

Close synonyms include accusative, accusative 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 objective case a common word?

objective 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.