Noun: claim
| Singular | claim |
| Plural | claims |
Sample Sentences
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a claim of ownership
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a claim of victory
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You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.
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The company's share price dropped amid claims of accounting fraud.
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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. [1946, Esther K. Sheldon, “Pronouncing Systems in Eighteenth-Century Dictionaries”, in Language, volume 22, number 1, Linguistic Society of America, →DOI, page 28:]
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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! [2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:]
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Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.
Nouns inflected like claim
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English claimen, borrowed from Old French clamer (“to call, name, send for”), from Latin clāmō, clāmāre (“to call, cry out”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to shout”), which is imitative.
2. 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. See: Old English Nouns '
hlōwan', Latin Nouns '
calō'.
Verbs referencing "claim"
German Nouns
Claim.