claim
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: From Middle English claimen, borrowed from Old French clamer (“to call, name, send for”), from Latin clāmō, clāmāre (“to call, cry out”), from Proto-Italic *klāmāō, from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to shout”), which is imitative.
See also Lithuanian kalba (“language”), Old English hlōwan (“to low, make a noise like a cow”), Old High German halan (“to call”), Ancient Greek καλέω (kaléō, “to call, convoke”), κλέδον (klédon, “report, fame”), κέλαδος (kélados, “noise”), Middle Irish cailech (“cock”), Latin calō (“to call out, announce solemnly”), Sanskrit उषःकल (uṣaḥkala, “cock”, literally “dawn-calling”). Cognate with Spanish llamar and clamar.
Inflected forms:
form: claims
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: claym
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: claims
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: claiming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: claimed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: claimed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: claim
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: claim
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: claimed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: claim
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: claimest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: claimed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: claimedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: claims
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: claimeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: claimed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: claim
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: claimed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: claim
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: claimed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: claim
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: claiming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: claimed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: claym
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A demand of ownership made for something.
pos: noun
examples: a claim of ownership
a claim of victory
gloss: The thing claimed.
pos: noun
gloss: The right or ground of demanding.
pos: noun
examples: You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: The company's share price dropped amid claims of accounting fraud.
Bailey, in using accents, felt that he was 'directing to their proper pronuntiation' and showing 'the Orthoepia of the English Tongue' (title page, Dictionarium Britannicum, 1730 edition). The claim is ridiculous.
The thing is, we've even had formal confirmation from Government itself that the crucial research required to make such sweeping claims hasn't been done!
gloss: A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
pos: noun
examples: Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.
gloss: A legal demand for compensation or damages.
pos: noun
gloss: To demand ownership of.
pos: verb
examples: Jeffrey Chuang, an economics student at University College London, said: "I am for independence. I do not think China has any right to claim Taiwan. We have confidence in our country and we know that China is not capable of doing anything to us."
gloss: To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
pos: verb
gloss: To demand ownership or right to use for land.
pos: verb
gloss: To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
pos: verb
gloss: To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority, upon what ground any one has empire
gloss: To cause the loss of.
pos: verb
examples: The attacks claimed the lives of five people.
A fire claimed two homes.
gloss: To win as a prize in a sport or competition.
pos: verb
examples: He claimed $100 after winning the top spot.
gloss: To proclaim.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
gloss: To call or name.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: Nor all, that else through all the world is named[…] / Might like to this be clamed.
Related words: claimable
claimant
claimer
disclaim
disclaimer
Derived words: ambit claim
baggage claim
Beauregard claim
claim form
claim jumper
claim-jumping
claimless
claim shanty
claimstaker
claim to fame
clamatory
contingent claim
extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
face claim
healthcare claim
inclamation
Jepson claim
jump a claim
lay claim
Markush claim
multiclaim
nonclaim
quit claim deed
stake a claim
statement of claim
subclaim
third-party claim
counterclaim
crossclaim
foreclaim
misclaim
and I claim my five pounds
claimability
claimee
claiming bite
claiming mark
claim someone's lifeclaiming race
fakeclaim
overclaim
unclaim
underclaim
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: պահանջ
roman: pahanǰ
lang: Azerbaijani
word: iddia
lang: Bashkir
word: дәғүә
roman: dəğwə
lang: Bulgarian
word: и́скане
roman: ískane
lang: Bulgarian
word: прете́нция
roman: preténcija
lang: Catalan
word: pretensió
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 要求
roman: yāoqiú
lang: Czech
word: nárok
lang: Danish
word: krav
lang: Dutch
word: aanspraak
lang: Esperanto
word: pretendo
lang: Finnish
word: vaatimus
lang: French
word: réclamation
lang: German
word: Anspruch
lang: Greek
word: αξίωση
roman: axíosi
lang: Greek
word: διεκδίκηση
roman: diekdíkisi
lang: Gujarati
word: દાવો
roman: dāvo
lang: Hindi
word: दावा
roman: dāvā
lang: Hungarian
word: igény
lang: Hungarian
word: követelés
lang: Hungarian
word: igénylés
lang: Italian
word: reclamo
lang: Italian
word: rivendicazione
lang: Khmer
word: ការទាមទារ
roman: kaa tiəmtiə
lang: Persian
word: دَعویٰ
roman: da'vâ
lang: Persian
word: دَعوا
roman: da'vâ
lang: Polish
word: roszczenie
lang: Portuguese
word: reivindicação
lang: Portuguese
word: reclamo
lang: Romanian
word: pretenție
lang: Romanian
word: revendicare
lang: Romanian
word: petiție
lang: Russian
word: прете́нзия
roman: pretɛ́nzija
lang: Russian
word: притяза́ния
roman: pritjazánija
lang: Russian
word: права́
roman: pravá
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: tagairt
lang: Spanish
word: reclamación
lang: Spanish
word: reivindicación
lang: Swedish
word: anspråk
lang: Tajik
word: даъво
roman: da'vo
lang: Turkish
word: iddia
lang: Ukrainian
word: прете́нзія
roman: preténzija
lang: Urdu
word: دَعْویٰ
roman: da'vā
lang: Vietnamese
word: đòi
lang: Zazaki
word: iddia
lang: Spanish
word: identificar como uno de los suyos
lang: Spanish
word: considerar como uno de los suyos