nominative of address

noun

Grammar.

a noun naming the person to whom one is speaking.

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At about a quarter to four, however, when Miss Arkwright was in the very middle of explaining the difference between a nominative of address and a nominative in apposition, the door opened suddenly, and Miss Kaye made her appearance.