English Explanatory Dictionary

claim

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A demand of ownership made for something.
  2. The thing claimed.
  3. The right or ground of demanding.
  4. A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.
  5. A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
  6. A legal demand for compensation or damages.
verb
  1. To demand ownership of.
  2. To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
  3. To demand ownership or right to use for land.
  4. To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
  5. To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
  6. To cause the loss of.
  7. To win as a prize in a sport or competition.
  8. To proclaim.
  9. To call or name.

Pronunciation

/kleɪm/ en-us-claim.ogg

Word forms

claim claims claym claiming claimed no-table-tags glossary claimest claimedst claimeth

Etymology

From Middle English claimen, borrowed from Old French clamer (“to call, name, send for”), from Latin clāmō, clāmāre (“to call, cry out”), from Proto-Italic *klāmāō, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to shout”), which is imitative. See also Lithuanian kalba (“language”), Old English hlōwan (“to low, make a noise like a cow”), Old High German halan (“to call”), Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō, “to call, convoke”), κλέδον (klédon, “report, fame”), κέλαδος (kélados, “noise”), Middle Irish cailech (“cock”), Latin calō (“to call out, announce solemnly”), Sanskrit उषःकल (uṣaḥkala, “cock”, literally “dawn-calling”). Cognate with Spanish llamar and clamar.

Related words

claimable claimant claimer disclaim disclaimer

Derived words

ambit claim baggage claim Beauregard claim claim form claim jumper claim-jumping claimless claim shanty claimstaker claim to fame clamatory contingent claim extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence face claim healthcare claim inclamation Jepson claim jump a claim lay claim Markush claim multiclaim nonclaim quit claim deed stake a claim statement of claim subclaim third-party claim counterclaim crossclaim foreclaim misclaim and I claim my five pounds claimability claimee claiming bite claiming mark claim someone's lifeclaiming race fakeclaim overclaim unclaim underclaim

Translations

Armenian: պահանջ Azerbaijani: iddia Bashkir: дәғүә Bulgarian: и́скане Bulgarian: прете́нция Catalan: pretensió Chinese Mandarin: 要求 Czech: nárok Danish: krav Dutch: aanspraak Esperanto: pretendo Finnish: vaatimus French: réclamation German: Anspruch Greek: αξίωση Greek: διεκδίκηση Gujarati: દાવો Hindi: दावा Hungarian: igény Hungarian: követelés Hungarian: igénylés Italian: reclamo Italian: rivendicazione Khmer: ការទាមទារ Persian: دَعویٰ Persian: دَعوا Polish: roszczenie Portuguese: reivindicação Portuguese: reclamo Romanian: pretenție Romanian: revendicare Romanian: petiție Russian: прете́нзия Russian: притяза́ния Russian: права́ Scottish Gaelic: tagairt Spanish: reclamación Spanish: reivindicación Swedish: anspråk Tajik: даъво Turkish: iddia Ukrainian: прете́нзія Urdu: دَعْویٰ Vietnamese: đòi Zazaki: iddia Spanish: identificar como uno de los suyos Spanish: considerar como uno de los suyos
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