Usually means: Expresses division of a whole.
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  1. partitive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. partitive: Merriam-Webster
  3. partitive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. partitive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. partitive: Collins English Dictionary
  6. partitive: Vocabulary.com
  7. partitive: Wordnik
  8. partitive: Wiktionary
  9. partitive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. partitive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Partitive, partitive: Dictionary.com
  12. partitive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Partitive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Partitive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. partitive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. partitive: Rhymezone
  17. Partitive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. partitive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. partitive: FreeDictionary.org
  20. partitive: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. partitive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. partitive: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See partitively as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  That divides something into parts.
adjective:  (grammar) Indicating a part rather than the whole of something.
noun:  (grammar) A partitive word, phrase or case.

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