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.
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."