claim

Meaning

Noun

1. A demand of ownership made for something.
2. The thing claimed.
3. The right or ground of demanding.
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.
5. A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
6. A legal demand for compensation or damages.

Verb

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.
5. To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
6. To cause the loss of.
7. To win as a prize in a sport or competition.
8. (obsolete) To proclaim.
9. To call or name.

Concepts

claim

demand

request

assert

pretension

assertion

require

right

allege

call

title

maintain

complaint

requirement

take

application

contention

exact

contend

argue

profess

charge

press

pretend

appeal

credit

ask for

arrogate

reclamation

reclaim

allegation

proposition

entail

postulate

state

assume

suppose

call for

purport

requisition

lay claim to

insist

argument

ask

statement

necessitate

aver

declare

position

plead

urge

insistence

cite

presume

action

lawsuit

suit

appropriate

lay claim

perquisite

contest

vindicate

plea

petition

pleading

consumer complaint

command

make out

claim to be

chase

connection

consequence

continuation

entourage

logic

rest

sequel

sequence

series

involve

need

want

attack verbally

affirm

announce

attest

avow

proclaim

pronounce

swear

law suit

plaint

resolve

due

fault

sin

customer complaint seeking compensation

invocation

quotation

press for

advocacy

emphasis

opinion

tenet

notice

proposal

report

billing

mention

accuse of

possess

take the liberty of

inquire

question

press for payment

press the claim

claim something false

jump to a conclusion

make an arbitrary decision

boast

brag

consult

quote

refer

explain

absence of authority

make one’s own

sum coming to a person

sum due a person

dibs

grievance

insurance claim

ownership

privilege

dispute

propriety

proprietorship

claim from

assumption

come upon

come down on

pretend to

counts

claim settlement

debit

acquire

gain

get

procure

dominions

estate

property

real estate

claim for oneself

claimed

admit

entitlement

customer complaint

dominance

franchise

justice

say-so

bear on

call in

cry

cry out for

govern

stipulate

insistency

laying claim

prayer

qualification

stipulation

allegement

averment

conjecture

demur

demurrer

postulation

professing

submission

thesis

avouch

remind

disputation

notice of defect

bid

put down

complain

accuse

criticize

indict

inquiry

rights

theorem

make an allegation

stand

view

call oneself

affirmation

asseverate

bear out

claim back

be owed

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kleɪm/

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.