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ATTRIBUTIVE GENITIVE CASE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A word in the genitive case that is used as an attributive adjective
Example:
an example of the attributive genetive is 'John's' in 'John's mother'
Synonyms:
attributive genitive; attributive genitive case
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("attributive genitive case" is a kind of...):
genitive; genitive case; possessive; possessive case (the case expressing ownership)