claim

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   demand for something as rightful or due

   they struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day

2. 2
   noun

   an informal right to something

   You have no claim on my time.

3. 3
   noun

   an established or recognized right

   a strong legal claim to the property

4. 4
   noun

   an assertion of a right, for example money or property

   Our insurance claim keeps being rejected.

5. 5
   noun

   an assertion that something is true or factual

   They claim to be innocent.

6. 6
   verb

   to take, as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs

   The accident claimed three lives.

7. 7
   verb

   to ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example

   They claimed on the maximum allowable amount

8. 8
   noun

   A demand of ownership made for something.

   a claim of ownership

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…