Claimant Meaning
/ˈkleɪ.mənt/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounOne who claims; one who makes a claim.
nounA person receiving money from the government, in a form of unemployment benefits, disability benefits or similar.
Sentence Examples
The insurance company rejected the claimant's request.
There is more than one claimant to the late king's throne.
The claimant submitted a request for compensation to the insurance company.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The insurance ____ submitted the forms after the car accident.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The successful ____ received a large sum of money from the case.
Word Origin & History
From Old French and Anglo-Norman clamant, present participle of the verb clamer and its variants, from Latin clāmō (“to cry out”), equivalent to claim + -ant. Compare clamant.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"“Two or three months more went by ; the public were eagerly awaiting the arrival of this semi-exotic claimant to an English peerage, and sensations, surpassing those of the Tichbourne case, were looked forward to with palpitating interest.[…]”"
— 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Tremarn Case”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The insurance ____ submitted the forms after the car accident.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The successful ____ received a large sum of money from the case.