Entry Word: claim

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 an entitlement to something <Iʼm announcing my claim to that last slice of pizza>

Synonyms call, pretense (or pretence), pretension, right

Related Words birthright, prerogative; favor, privilege; refusal

2 a legal right to participation in the advantages, profits, and responsibility of something <a shareholder has a claim in the business> — see interest 1
3 a solemn and often public declaration of the truth or existence of something <Galileo's claim that the moon has a very irregular surface and thus is not the perfect sphere that the ancients had imagined> — see protestation
4 something that someone insists upon having <young children make great claims on their parentsʼ time> — see demand 1