claim
//kleɪm//
Forms
- Plural
- claims
- present (v1)
- claim
- past (v2)
- claimed
- past participle (v3)
- claimed
- present participle
- claiming
- 3rd person singular
- claims
Definitions
1.A demand of ownership made for something.
2.The right or ground of demanding.
- You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.
3.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.
- 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!
- 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.
4.The thing claimed.
1.To demand ownership of.
2.To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
3.To demand ownership or right to use for land.
4.To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #834
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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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.