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claimee

claimee noun: a person from whom something is claimed.

Noun

claimee (plural claimees)

  1. A person from whom something is claimed.
    • The deceased belong to death now, not to us. And it may be that we feel that it is not simply other people watching us; we are being watched by death itself. Death has come to visit, and we are all in its presence when we share a room with one of its recent claimees.2020 January 27, Iskra Fileva, “What Do We Owe the Dead?”, in The New York Times

Forms of claimee

pluralclaimees

Origin of claimee

From claim + -ee.

Questions about claimee

What does claimee mean?
Claimee means a person from whom something is claimed.
What part of speech is claimee?
Claimee is a noun.
What is the plural of claimee?
The plural of claimee is claimees.

Words near claimee in the dictionary

  1. claimants
  2. claime
  3. claimed
  4. claimed someone's life
  5. claimedst
  6. claimee
  7. claimees
  8. claimer
  9. claimers
  10. claimes
  11. claimest

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