vocative /vokˈə-tiv/

1. Relating to the act of calling
2. Applied to the grammatical case used in some inflected languages in direct personal address

1. The case of a word when a person or thing is addressed
2. A word in that case

• statements of claim
• state-monger
• state-mongers
• state of affairs
• state of emergency
• state of events
• state of play
• state of repair
• state of siege
• state of the art
• state-of-the-art
• state of the Union message
• state paper
• state papers
• state prison
• state prisoner
• state prisoners
• state prisons
• stater
• State Registered Nurse
• state religion
• state religions
• stateroom
• staterooms
• staters