Usually means: Latin grammatical construction, syntactically independent.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word ablative absolute:

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  1. ablative absolute: Merriam-Webster
  2. ablative absolute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ablative absolute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ablative absolute: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ablative absolute: Vocabulary.com
  6. ablative absolute: Wordnik
  7. ablative absolute: Wiktionary
  8. ablative absolute: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. ablative absolute: Dictionary.com
  10. Ablative absolute: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. ablative absolute: Rhymezone
  12. ablative absolute: FreeDictionary.org
  13. ablative absolute: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. ablative absolute: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. ablative absolute: Merriam-Webster

(Note: See ablative_absolutes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ablative absolute)

noun:  (grammar) A construction in Latin and other sister languages in which an independent phrase with a noun in the ablative case has a participle, adjective, or noun, expressed or implied, which agrees with it in gender, number and case – both words forming a clause grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence.

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