vocative
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views updated Jun 08 2018voc·a·tive / ˈväkətiv/ Gram. • adj. relating to or denoting a case of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in Latin and other languages, used in addressing or invoking a person or thing.• n. a word in the vocative case. ∎ (the vocative) the vocative case.
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