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  1. genitives: Merriam-Webster
  2. genitives: Collins English Dictionary
  3. genitives: Vocabulary.com
  4. genitives: Wordnik
  5. genitives: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. genitives: Wiktionary
  7. genitives: Dictionary.com
  8. genitives: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. genitives: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (genitive)

adjective:  (archaic) Of or pertaining to the generation of offspring; generative, procreative, reproductive.
adjective:  (grammar)
adjective:  Of a grammatical case: in an inflected language (such as Greek or Latin), expressing that a thing denoted by a word is related to a thing denoted by another word as its origin or possessor; and in an uninflected language (such as English), expressing origin or possession; possessive.
adjective:  Of, pertaining to, or used in the genitive case.
noun:  (countable) A word inflected in the genitive case, and which thus indicates origin or possession.
noun:  (countable, uncountable) Short for genitive case (“a grammatical case used to express a relationship of origin or possession”). [(grammar) The grammatical case, chiefly applicable to nouns, used to express a relationship of origin or possession. It corresponds roughly to the English preposition of and the suffix -'s.]
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