Definition of claim

• v./. - To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
• v./. - To proclaim.
• v./. - To call or name.
• v./. - To assert; to maintain.
• v. i. - To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
• n. - A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.
• n. - A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.
• n. - The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim.
• n. - A loud call.