Longman Dictionary English From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Grammarnominativenom‧i‧na‧tive /ˈnɒmənətɪv, ˈnɒmnə- $ ˈnɑː-/ noun [countable] technical SLGa particular form of a noun in some languages, such as Latin and German, which shows that the noun is the subject of a verb —nominative adjective ldoceonline.com