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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Of or relating to the transfer or movement of a person or thing to another place.
  • adj. Relating to or used in the translation of a language.
  • adj. Linguistics Of, relating to, or being the grammatical case indicating the state into which one passes in certain languages, as in Finnish (Tule) terveeksi! "(Get) well!”
  • n. Linguistics The translative case.
  • n. Linguistics A word or form in the translative case.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. of, or relating to the movement of a person or thing from one place to another
  • adj. of, or relating to the translation of language
  • adj. of, or relating to the translative case
  • adj. In the form of a trope; figurative.
  • n. the translative case
  • n. a word in the translative case
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. tropical; figurative.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Relating or pertaining to translation; especially, involving transference of meaning; metaphorical.
  • Word Usage
    "Compared to a Finno-Ugric language like Estonian or Hungarian, which has tons of cases with exotic names like the inessive, superessive, ablative, translative, and exessive, English seems as poor as a pauper on payday."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tropical    figurative