Usually means: Addressing or calling someone directly.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Vocative:

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

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -vocative: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. vocative: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (vocative)

adjective:  Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling or vocation.
adjective:  (grammar) Used in address; appellative (said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing is addressed). For example "Domine, O Lord"
noun:  (grammar) The vocative case
noun:  (grammar) A word in the vocative case
noun:  (rare) Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing; an entreaty, an invocation.

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