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claimant

/ˈkleɪmənt/KLAY-muhnt
/ˈkleɪmənt/KLAY-muhnt

Meaningone who claims

Common meaning: a person making a claim

Journey through time

  1. Latinclamare‘to call out’source
  2. Middle Englishclamensource
  3. Englishclaim‘to demand as a right’
  4. Englishformed in English from claimclaimant‘a person making a claim’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Formed in English from claim + -ant.

Dictionary: Skeat (1898), CLAIM, p.112 · scan

Source words

  • clamare Latin · source word “to call out”

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