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Claim   /kleɪm/   Listen
Claim

noun
1.
An assertion of a right (as to money or property).
2.
An assertion that something is true or factual.  "Evidence contradicted the government's claims"
3.
Demand for something as rightful or due.
4.
An informal right to something.  Synonym: title.  "His title to fame"
5.
An established or recognized right.  Synonym: title.  "He had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate" , "He staked his claim"
6.
A demand especially in the phrase.  Synonym: call.
verb
(past & past part. claimed; pres. part. claiming)
1.
Assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing.
2.
Demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to.  Synonyms: arrogate, lay claim.  "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident"
3.
Ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example.
4.
Lay claim to; as of an idea.  Synonym: take.
5.
Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs.  Synonyms: exact, take.  "The hard work took its toll on her"



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"Claim" Quotes from Famous Books



... "To claim the fulfilment of your royal promises," said Dun, making a lowly reverence that by its humility took away all arrogance from the boldness of ...
— Ringan Gilhaize - or The Covenanters • John Galt
... "I must claim the privilege of an adopted brother," said he, extending his hand, and I thought he smiled. Perhaps I was mistaken. His countenance had a way of suddenly lighting up, which I learned to compare to sunshine breaking through clouds. The hand in which he took mine was so white, so delicately ...
— Ernest Linwood - or, The Inner Life of the Author • Caroline Lee Hentz
... number of doubtful pretenders always existing in Spain, disputes about the royal succession also always existed. Such a dispute now led to a long war with Portugal, where King Fernando had really the most valid hereditary claim to the throne made vacant by Pedro's death. If his right had been acknowledged, Portugal and Spain would now be united; Isabella would have remained only a poor and devout princess, and would never have had the power to win a continent ...
— A Short History of Spain • Mary Platt Parmele
... present purposes we can define great literature as worthy written expression of great ideas. If we may take the word "written" for granted, the rough definition becomes this: that great literature is the worthy expression of great ideas. Works which claim to be great in literature may fail of greatness in either half of that test. Petty, local, unimportant ideas may be well clothed, or great ideas may be unworthily expressed; in either case the literature is poor. It is not until great ideas are wedded to worthy expression that literature ...
— The Greatest English Classic A Study of the King James Version of • Cleland Boyd McAfee
... neither be classified nor unclassified; it is beyond reason. Mathematics can proceed with its investigations only so long as it treats all quantities as measurable; it must wholly cease its calculations if an infinite term be introduced. To claim that analysis represents the complete normal action of the intellect in reasoning, is ultimately to claim that the initial point of thinking is the summum genus of thought—God. Now God is undoubtedly the initial point of absolute thought, but he is not ...
— The Philosophy of Evolution - and The Metaphysical Basis of Science • Stephen H. Carpenter


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