Claim Definition

klām
claimed, claiming, claims
verb
claimed, claiming, claims
To demand or ask for as rightfully belonging or due to one; assert one's right to (a title, accomplishment, etc. that should be recognized)
To claim a record in the high jump.
Webster's New World
To take in a violent manner as if by right.
A hurricane that claimed two lives.
American Heritage
To state as a fact or as one's belief (something that may be called into question); assert.
Webster's New World
To call for; require; deserve.
A problem that claims attention.
Webster's New World
Wiktionary
noun
claims
A demand for something rightfully or allegedly due.
Webster's New World
A right or title to something.
Her sole claim to fame.
Webster's New World
Something claimed.
Webster's New World
Something claimed in a formal or legal manner, especially a tract of public land staked out by a miner or homesteader.
American Heritage
A demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy or other formal arrangement.
American Heritage
idiom
lay claim to
  • To assert one's right to or ownership of.
American Heritage
lay claim to
  • to assert one's right or title to
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Claim

Noun

Singular:
claim
Plural:
claims

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Claim

  • lay claim to
  • lay claim to

Origin of Claim

  • From Middle English claimen, from Old French claimer, clamer (“to call, name, send for”), from Latin clāmō (“to call, cry out”), from Proto-Indo-European *kele- (“to shout”), which is imitative; see also Lithuanian kalba (“language”), Old English hlowan (“to low, make a noise like a cow”), Old High German halan (“to call”), Ancient Greek καλέω (kaleō, “to call, convoke”), κλεδον (kledon, “report, fame”), κέλαδος (kelados, “noise”), Middle Irish cailech (“cock”), Latin calō (“to call out, announce solemnly”), Sanskrit उषःकाल (uṣaḥkāla, “cock, literally dawn-calling”).

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English claimen from Old French clamer claim- from Latin clāmāre to call kelə-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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