Usually means: Indicates location in linguistic expression.
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  1. locative: Merriam-Webster
  2. locative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. locative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. locative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. locative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Locative, locative: Wordnik
  7. locative: Wiktionary
  8. locative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. locative: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Locative, locative: Dictionary.com
  11. locative: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Locative (case), Locative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Locative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. locative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. locative: Rhymezone
  16. Locative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. locative: FreeDictionary.org
  18. locative: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. locative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. locative: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. locative: Encyclopedia

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  (grammar) Indicating place, or the place where, or wherein.
▸ noun:  (grammar) The locative case.

Similar:
locative case, andative, directional, ambulative, periphrastic, dative, in place, adverbative, usitative, west, more...

Opposite:
non-locative, non-spatial, non-place-based

Types:
prepositional, adverbial, subordinate clause, more...

Phrases:
locative case, locative role, more...

Adjectives:
old, general, inherently, second, outer, temporal, inner, spatial, existential, simple, preposed
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Similar:
locative case, andative, directional, ambulative, periphrastic, dative, in place, adverbative, usitative, west, more...

Opposite:
non-locative, non-spatial, non-place-based

Types:
prepositional, adverbial, subordinate clause, more...

Phrases:
locative case, locative role, more...

Adjectives:
old, general, inherently, second, outer, temporal, inner, spatial, existential, simple, preposed



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