vocative

Questions about vocative

What does vocative mean?

vocative means "the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vocative?

vocative has 3 syllables: vo-ca-tive. The stress falls on "vo".

What is another word for vocative?

Close synonyms include vocative 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 vocative a common word?

vocative 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.