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partitive

Syllabification: (par·ti·tive)
Pronunciation: /ˈpärtitiv/

Grammar
Definition of partitive

adjective

  • (of a grammatical construction or case) referring to only a part of a whole, for example a slice of bacon, a series of accidents, some of the children.

noun

  • a partitive construction.
  • a noun or pronoun used as the first term in a partitive construction.

Derivatives

partitively

adverb

partitive in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of partitive in the British & World English dictionary