Accusative

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case that is the direct object of a verb or the object of certain prepositions.
  • adj. Accusatory.
  • n. The accusative case.
  • n. A word or form in the accusative case.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Producing accusations; accusatory; accusatorial; a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame
  • adj. Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin, Lithuanian and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb has its limited influence. Other parts of speech, including secondary or predicate direct objects, will also influence a sentenceā€™s construction. In German the case used for direct objects.
  • n. The accusative case.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Producing accusations; accusatory.
  • adj. Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb terminates, or the immediate object of motion or tendency to, expressed by a preposition. It corresponds to the objective case in English.
  • n. The accusative case.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Producing accusations; accusatory.
  • In grammar, noting especially the direct object of a verb, and to a considerable extent (and probably primarily) destination or goal of motion: applied to a case forming part of the original Indo-European declension (as of the case-systems of other languages), and retained as a distinct form by the older languages of the family, and by some of the modern.
  • n. Short for accusative case. See I., 2.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. containing or expressing accusation
  • n. the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb
  • adj. serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes
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