EGAVE

case

About 319.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun An actual event, situation, or fact.
    For a change, in this case, he was telling the truth.
  2. noun A given condition or state.
  3. noun A specific matter or piece of work, specifically defined within a profession, usually in respect of a specific person and/or event; the set of tasks involved in addressing one such matter.
    It was one of the detective's easiest cases.
  4. noun An instance or event as a topic of study.
    The teaching consists of theory lessons and case studies.
  5. noun A legal proceeding; a lawsuit or prosecution.
  6. noun A specific inflection of a word (particularly a noun, pronoun, or adjective) depending on its function in the sentence.
    The accusative case most commonly indicates a direct object.
  7. noun Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
    Jane has been studying case in Caucasian languages.
  8. noun An instance of a specific condition or set of symptoms.
    There were another five cases reported overnight.

Similar words

event cause subject example eccentric showcase type instance character grammatical case

Often followed by

of the in is for with study was that

Word family

cased cases casing

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