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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A grammatical construction in which a noun or pronoun in the genitive or possessive case is used independently of the noun which it possesses.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Synonyms: headless genitive, independent possessive, substantive genitive
Antonyms: none provided
History
From independent + genitive.
