English Dictionary

claim

/kleɪm/

verb

To demand ownership of. / To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true. / To demand ownership or right to use for land.

He will claim his inheritance.

意味（1）

To demand ownership of.

Jeffrey Chuang, an economics student at University College London, said: I am for independence. I do not think China has any right to claim Taiwan. We have confidence in our country and we know that China is not capable of doing anything to us.

意味（2）

To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.

意味（3）

To demand ownership or right to use for land.

意味（4）

(law) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.

意味（5）

(intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority, upon what ground any one has empire

意味（6）

To cause the loss of, usually by violent means.

The attacks claimed the lives of five people.

意味（7）

(obsolete) To proclaim.

意味（8）

(archaic) To call or name.

Nor all, that else through all the world is named[…] / Might like to this be clamed.