We found 3 definitions of partitives from 2 different sources.
NounPlural: partitives |
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partitive - word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole | ||
word a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning" | ||
Adjective |
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partitive - serving to separate or divide into parts; "partitive tendencies in education"; "the uniting influence was stronger than the separative" | ||
separative | ||
disjunctive serving or tending to divide or separate | ||
partitive - indicating or characterized by or serving to create partition or division into parts; "partitive tendencies in education" | ||
partitive - (Romance languages) relating to or denoting a part of a whole or a quantity that is less than the whole; "a partitive construction" |