(grammar) The vocative case / (grammar) A word in the vocative case / (rare) Something said to (or as though to) a particular person or thing; an entreaty, an invocation.

plural of vocative

(sports, Canada) Vancouver Organizing Committee; the organizer of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics / (Canada, radio, historical) Voice of Canada; former name of RCI (Radio Canada International)

plural of vocative case

(education) Clipping of vocational education.

(grammar) case of address, case used for a noun identifying the person or thing being addressed. It corresponds to the archaic English particle "O" as used in solemn or poetic address e.g.: Hear me, O Albion! Languages that regularly employ the vocative include Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Georgian, Greek, Hawaiian, Hindi-Urdu, Irish, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ojibwe, Polish, Romanian, Ruthenian/Rusyn, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Tamil and Ukrainian.