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claime

claime is the obsolete spelling of claim.

Meaning of claim

Noun

claim (plural claims)

  1. A demand of ownership made for something.
    • a claim of ownership
  2. The thing claimed.
  3. The right or ground of demanding.
    • You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.
  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.
    • The company's share price dropped amid claims of accounting fraud.
  5. A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
    • Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.
  6. A legal demand for compensation or damages.

See all 15 meanings of claim

Forms of claime

Noun
pluralclaimes
Verb
third-person singular presentclaimes
present participleclaiming
past participleclaimed
pastclaimed

Questions about claime

What is claime the obsolete spelling of?
Claime is the obsolete spelling of claim.

Words near claime in the dictionary

  1. claimables
  2. claimancies
  3. claimancy
  4. claimant
  5. claimants
  6. claime
  7. claimed
  8. claimed someone's life
  9. claimedst
  10. claimee
  11. claimees

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Adapted from Wiktionary: claime (page history and authors); claim (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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