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claimees

claimees is the plural of claimee.

Meaning of claimee

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

Questions about claimees

What is claimees the plural of?
Claimees is the plural of claimee.

Words near claimees in the dictionary

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

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