claimant
/ˈkleɪ.mənt/
claimant noun: one who claims; one who makes a claim.
Noun
claimant (plural claimants)
- One who claims; one who makes a claim.
- “Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest.[…]”1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening &...
- A person receiving money from the government, in a form of unemployment benefits, disability benefits or similar.
- The party who initiates a lawsuit before a court.
claimant meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
claimant in Hindi
- one who claims
- याचक yācak
claimant in Tamil
- உரிமை கொண்டாடுபவர், உரிமை கேட்போர், உரிமை கோருபவர், உரிமை கோருபவ்ர, உரிமைகோருபவர், கொண்டாடுபவர்
claimant in Marathi
- दावेदार, दावा करणारा
claimant in Urdu
- a claimant, suitor; plaintiff , complainant, prosecutor, accuser
- مدعی mudda'ī
More languagesFewer languages
- claimant in Bengali
- দাবিদার, স্বত্বাধিকারী, ক্ষতিপূরণপ্রার্থী
- claimant in Malayalam
- അവകാശി, അവകാശപ്പെടുന്നവൻ, അവകാശവാദം പുറപ്പെടുവിക്കുന്നയാൾ, അവകാശപ്പെടുന്നയാൾ
- claimant in Kannada
- ಹಕ್ಕುವುಳ್ಳವನು, ಸ್ವಾಮ್ಯವುಳ್ಳವನು, ಬಾಧ್ಯಸ್ಥ
- claimant in Punjabi
- ਦਾਅਵੇਦਾਰ, ਦਾਅਵਾ ਕਰਨ ਵਾਲਾ
- claimant in Gujarati
- હકદાર hakdār
- claimant in Odia
- ଦାବିଦାର
- claimant in Nepali
- दावेदार, दाबीकर्ता, दावीकर्ता
- claimant in Tagalog
- naghahabol
- claimant in Arabic
- مُدَّعٍ muddaʕin, مُدَّعِيَة muddaʕiya
Examples of claimant in a sentence
- After we deposed the claimant we had enough evidence to avoid a trial.
- Workshy benefits claimants should stop watching daytime television and get a job.
- The claimant believed his First Amendment rights had been violated, but the judge was unsure of whether it was a First Amendment issue.
Forms of claimant
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Origin of claimant
From Old French and Anglo-Norman clamant, present participle of the verb clamer and its variants, from Latin clāmō (“to cry out”), equivalent to claim + -ant. Compare clamant.
Words formed from claimant
Words that rhyme with claimant
Questions about claimant
- What does claimant mean?
- Claimant means one who claims; one who makes a claim.
- What is claimant in Hindi?
- Claimant in Hindi is याचक (yācak). See Claimant meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is claimant?
- Claimant is a noun.
- How do you pronounce claimant?
- Claimant is pronounced /ˈkleɪ.mənt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of claimant?
- The plural of claimant is claimants.
Words near claimant in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: claimant (page history and authors); claimant (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); claimant (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); مدعی (Urdu) (page history and authors); claimant (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); claimant (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); claimant (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); claimant (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); હકદાર (Gujarati) (page history and authors); claimant (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); claimant (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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