claim
/kleɪm/
claim noun: a demand of ownership made for something.
Noun
claim (plural claims)
- A demand of ownership made for something.
- a claim of ownership
- a claim of victory
- The thing claimed.
- The right or ground of demanding.
- You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.
- 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.
- The company's share price dropped amid claims of accounting fraud.
- Bailey, in using accents, felt that he was 'directing to their proper pronuntiation' and showing 'the Orthoepia of the English Tongue' (title page, Dictionarium Britannicum, 1730 edition). The claim is ridiculous.1946, Esther K. Sheldon, “Pronouncing Systems in Eighteenth-Century Dictionaries”, in Language, volume 22, number 1, Linguistic Society of America, →DOI, page 28
- A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
- Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.
- A legal demand for compensation or damages.
Verb
claim (third-person singular simple present claims, present participle claiming, simple past and past participle claimed)
- To demand ownership of.
- Jeffrey Chuang, an economics student at University College London, said: "I am for independence. I do not think China has any right to claim Taiwan. We have confidence in our country and we know that China is not capable of doing anything to us."1996 March 15, Leyla Linton, “London students sing their defiance”, in The Times, number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 14, columns 1, 2
- To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
- Synonyms:
- allege
- To demand ownership or right to use for land.
- To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
- To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
- We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority, upon what ground any one has empire1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 1, in Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC
- To cause the loss of.
- The attacks claimed the lives of five people.
- A fire claimed two homes.
- To win as a prize in a sport or competition.
- He claimed $100 after winning the top spot.
- To proclaim.
- To call or name.
- Nor all, that else through all the world is named[…] / Might like to this be clamed.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
claim meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
claim in Hindi
- demand of ownership
- दावा dāvā
- new statement of truth made about something
- दावा dāvā
- law: demand for compensation
- दावा dāvā
- to state a new fact
- दावा करना dāvā karnā
claim in Tamil
- claim, right, property
- கிழமை kiḻamai
claim in Marathi
- दावा
claim in Urdu
- demand of ownership
- دَعْویٰ da'vā
- new statement of truth made about something
- دَعْویٰ da'vā
- law: demand for compensation
- دَعْویٰ da'vā
- to state a new fact
- دعوی کرنا dāvā karnā
More languagesFewer languages
- claim in Bengali
- দাওয়া daōẇa
- claim in Telugu
- దావా dāvā
- claim in Malayalam
- അവകാശപ്പെടുക avakāśappeṭuka
- claim in Kannada
- ಅಧಿಕಾರ adhikāra
- claim in Punjabi
- ਦਾਅਵਾ
- claim in Gujarati
- દાવો dāvo, દાવો કરવો dāvo karvo
- claim in Odia
- ଅଧିକରଣ adhikaraṇa, ଅଧିକାର adhikāra
- claim in Sanskrit
- अधिकार adhikāra
- claim in Nepali
- दाबी, दावी
- claim in Pashto
- دعوه dâwa, ادعا
- claim in Arabic
- مُطَالَبَة muṭālaba, دَعْوَى daʕwā, اِدِّعَاء iddiʕāʔ, ٱِدَّعَى iddaʕā
- claim in Persian
- دَعویٰ da'vâ, دَعوا da'vâ, ادعا کردن edde'â kardan
- claim in Vietnamese
- đòi
Examples of claim in a sentence
- It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs.
- In my opinion this claim sounds in damages rather than in an injunction.
- She sued the author of the biography, claiming it painted her as a duplicitous fraud.
Synonyms of claim
Forms of claim
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | claims |
| alternative form | claym |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | claims |
| present participle | claiming |
| past participle | claimed |
| past | claimed |
| second-person singular present (archaic) | claimest |
| second-person singular past (archaic) | claimedst |
| third-person singular present (archaic) | claimeth |
Origin of claim
From Middle English claimen, borrowed from Old French clamer (“to call, name, send for”), from Latin clāmō, clāmāre (“to call, cry out”), 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.
Words formed from claim
- ambit claim
- baggage claim
- Beauregard claim
- claim chart
- 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
Phrases with claim
- laid claim
- lays claim
- claim forms
- claim charts
- laying claim
- claim jumpers
- jumps a claim
- claim adjuster
- Claim of Right
- claim shanties
- jumped a claim
- staked a claim
8 more phrasesFewer phrases
Words that rhyme with claim
37 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- same
- blame
- declaim
- disclaim
- squame
- aflame
- came
- defame
- fame
- rame
- ashame
- became
- crame
- exclaim
- mechanical game
- misname
- overcame
- proclaim
- second name
- BAME
- by name
- cyberfame
- deadname
- enflame
- file names
- good game
- hame
- herostratic fame
- maim
- Markush claim
- reclame
- rename
- run game
- sejm
- succame
- two can play this game
- video game
Questions about claim
- What does claim mean?
- Claim means a demand of ownership made for something.
- What is claim in Hindi?
- Claim in Hindi is दावा (dāvā), दावा करना (dāvā karnā). See Claim meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is claim?
- Claim can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce claim?
- Claim is pronounced /kleɪm/.
- What is the plural of claim?
- The plural of claim is claims.
Words near claim in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: claim (page history and authors); கிழமை (Tamil) (page history and authors); claim (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); দাওয়া (Bengali) (page history and authors); దావా (Telugu) (page history and authors); ಅಧಿಕಾರ (Kannada) (page history and authors); claim (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ଅଧିକରଣ (Odia) (page history and authors); अधिकार (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); claim (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ادعا (Pashto) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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