Usually means: Possessive form of a noun.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word genitive:

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

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  1. genitive: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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