claimant

C2+ Topic:People & Society

US /ˈkleɪmənt/ UK /ˈkleɪmənt/ See IPA manual

Minimal pairs

Sounds like clement /ɛ/ vs /eɪ/

Meanings

1

noun
a person who makes a claim, especially in law

The claimant sought damages for the broken contract.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a person who makes a claim,... plaintiff petitioner applicantappellantpretender

Opposites

defendant respondent

Word family

Related forms claim reclaim proclaim exclaim

Etymology

From claim + -ant, modeled on French. Claim is from Old French clamer ('to call, claim'), from Latin clamare ('to cry out, proclaim').

clamer Old French clamare Latin

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Topics

People & Society Word Formation & Derivatives

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# claimant

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /ˈkleɪmənt/
**IPA (UK):** /ˈkleɪmənt/

## Meanings
1. a person who makes a claim, especially in law

## Examples
- The claimant sought damages for the broken contract.

## Synonyms
- plaintiff
- petitioner
- applicant
- appellant
- pretender

## Antonyms
- defendant
- respondent

## Related Forms
- claim
- reclaim
- proclaim
- exclaim

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: clamer
- Root: clamare

## Etymology
From claim + -ant, modeled on French. Claim is from Old French clamer ('to call, claim'), from Latin clamare ('to cry out, proclaim').

## AI Etymology
Claimant comes from claim + -ant, modeled on French. Claim is from Old French clamer ('to call, claim'), from Latin clamare ('to cry out, proclaim'). The historical trail runs through clamer in Old French and clamare in Latin. Morphologically, claimant is transparent: it draws on claim + -ant, modeled on French. Used as a noun, claimant now means "a person who makes a claim, especially in law", so the present definition can be read against the older forms and meanings. The same lexical family is also visible in related forms such as claim, reclaim, proclaim, and exclaim. The result is a borrowed or transmitted form whose modern spelling carries a compact record of its route into English.

## Topics
- People & Society
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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