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claym

claym is the obsolete form 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 claym

Noun
pluralclayms
Verb
third-person singular presentclayms
present participleclayming
past participleclaymed
pastclaymed

Questions about claym

What is claym the obsolete form of?
Claym is the obsolete form of claim.

Words near claym in the dictionary

  1. clayishness
  2. claykicker
  3. claykickers
  4. clayless
  5. claylike
  6. claym
  7. clayman
  8. Claymans
  9. claymate
  10. claymated
  11. claymates

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Adapted from Wiktionary: claym (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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