Dictionary Entry
dative
dative is a 6-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter object, and is generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.
- 2adjective
In one's gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office.
- 3adjective
Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; -- said of an officer.
- 4adjective
Given by a magistrate, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law.
- 5noun
The dative case. See Dative., 1.
- 6noun
the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb
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