group genitive
Grammar
noun
(In English) a genitive formed by adding 's (or ') to the last word of a phrase, as the woman who lives next door's cat.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in Otto Jespersen (1860–1943), linguist.
- oliveness
- olivenite
- olive nut
- olive oil
- olive pie
- olive plant
- olive press
- Oliver
- Oliverian
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- olive shell
- olive-sided flycatcher
- olive-skinned
- Olives, Mount of
- olivet
- Olivetan
- olive thrush
- olive tree
- olivette
- Olivetti
- olive whistler
- olive wood
- oliveyard
- Olivier, Laurence
- oliviform