vocative case

1. 1.

   the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed

   Synonymsvocative

   Broaderoblique

Questions about vocative case

What does vocative case mean?

vocative case means "the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed".

What is another word for vocative case?

Close synonyms include vocative. 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 case a common word?

vocative 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.