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. (intransitive) 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. (archaic) To call or name.

Synonyms

demand

request

assert

assertion

pretension

require

right

call

allege

title

take

complaint

maintain

requirement

application

contention

exact

argue

profess

contend

pretend

press

charge

proposition

appeal

credit

ask for

reclaim

allegation

arrogate

reclamation

argument

lay claim to

suppose

postulate

assume

requisition

entail

insist

state

call for

ask

purport

statement

presume

pleading

appropriate

position

aver

plea

Translations

Anspruch

revendiquer

beanspruchen

revendication

Forderung

fordern

réclamation

reclamare

behaupten

reclamo

reclamar

rivendicare

demande

opeisen

pretesa

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kleɪm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: claimen

Cognate with Lithuanian: kalba

Cognate with Old English: hlōwan

Cognate with Old High German: halan

Cognate with Ancient Greek: καλέω

Cognate with Middle Irish: cailech

Cognate with Latin: calō

Cognate with Sanskrit: उषःकल

Cognate with Spanish: llamar

In summary

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.

Sentences

And I still claim I was right the night I proposed .