CLAIMANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does claimant mean? 

• CLAIMANT (noun)
  The noun CLAIMANT has 1 sense:

1. someone who claims a benefit or right or title

  Familiarity information: CLAIMANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLAIMANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who claims a benefit or right or title

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Context example:

he was a claimant to the throne

Hypernyms ("claimant" is a kind of...):

applicant; applier (a person who requests or seeks something such as assistance or employment or admission)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "claimant"):

Pretender (a claimant to the throne or to the office of ruler (usually without just title))

Derivation:

claim (ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example)

claim (demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to)

 Context examples 

She would marry, and would have new claimants on her tenderness; and in doing it, would never know the love for her that had grown up in my heart.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

While the remains of Jim Hall were discovered on a dozen mountain-sides by greedy claimants for blood- money.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Many a time I have shared between two claimants the precious morsel of brown bread distributed at tea-time; and after relinquishing to a third half the contents of my mug of coffee, I have swallowed the remainder with an accompaniment of secret tears, forced from me by the exigency of hunger.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)