Usually means: Grammatical case indicating indirect object.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. dative: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dative, the dative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dative, dative: Wordnik
  7. dative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dative: Wiktionary
  9. dative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dative: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dative: Dictionary.com
  13. dative: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Dative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dative: Rhymezone
  18. Dative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. dative: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. dative: Free Dictionary
  22. dative: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. dative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. dative: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Dative: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dative: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dative: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dative: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See datives as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (grammar) Noting the case of a noun which expresses the remoter or indirect object, generally indicated in English by to or for with the objective.
adjective:  (obsolete, law) In one’s gift; capable of being disposed of at will and pleasure, as an office or other privilege.
adjective:  (obsolete, law) Removable, as distinguished from perpetual; — said of an officer.
adjective:  (obsolete, law) Given by a judge, as distinguished from being cast upon a party by the law itself.
adjective:  (sciences) Formed by two electrons contributed by one atom; see dative bond.
adjective:  (mathematics, obsolete) Given in advance; not needed to be calculated.
noun:  (grammar) The dative case.
noun:  (grammar) A word inflected in the dative case.

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