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Definition of claim : 1. A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.
2. A loud call.
3. A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.
4. The thing claimed or demanded; that ( as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim.
5. To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
6. To assert; to maintain.
7. To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
8. To call, or name.
9. To proclaim.

Synonyms:

seize, ask for, access, take someone's life, contain, have first call on, crown, impute to, apologia, carry, select, outcry, song, necessitate, produce, exact, slaughter, announcement, margin call, discredit, assurance, share, solicitation, permission, requirement, arrogate, walk away with, profession, insist on something, entrance, apology, study, exterminate, call for, interest, call, postulate, engage, take over, counterclaim, entreaty, civil rights, avow, take in, apportion, adduce, subscribe, invite, vindicate, avowal, stick on, case law, advance, take away, repudiate, belt, aim, telephone call, take aim, walk off with, lay something at someone's door, strike, consume, withdraw, film, subscribe to, take up, require, appeal, fill, assign, contract, refute, allege, introduce, title of respect, beg, massacre, rent, request, conservation area, convey, civil law, guide, insistence, stake, occupy, lay claim, adopt, sweep, lay claim to something, direct, birdcall, accusation, charter, border, ask, pick out, involve, lead, deed, asseveration, dibs, declaration, application, level at, owned, cry out for, ingest, give, insist on, dispatch, contention, entry, stake a claim (to something), ultimatum, use up, rely on, public interest, phone call, get hold of, hire, postulation, argue, letter, rubric, dun, could do with something, civil liberties, dry land, shoot, deed of conveyance, recapture, deflate, Chapter 11, dish out, cry, dispute, explode, corridor, confound, make, vociferation, award, usurp, strangle, domain, conservancy, take on, importunity, allegation, demand, murder, cite, right, call option, bylaw, protestation, statute title, title, summons, priority, debunk, say, concession, disprove, train, depend on, voice, acreage, read, disabuse, pack, act, plead, part, want, avouchment, remove, Chapter 7, conduct, order, bump off, championship, attack, need, learn, charge, deal, bill, shout, assassinate, attestation, offer, birdsong, drive, suit, assertion, kill, carry off, asseverate, case, yell, form of address, consider, look at, lease, bring, requisition, choose, enclosure

profess, propound, accept, ratify, pledge, validate, contend, avouch, admit, declare, promise, corroborate, express, maintain, sustain, submit, endorse, assure, warrant, verify, certify, acknowledge, testify, adjure, approve, affirm, support, proclaim, state, aver, attest, pronounce, assert, set down

defraud, counterfeit, imitate, forge, cover, bluff, masquerade, falsify, pose, pretend, show, stage, deceive, fake, disguise, affect, impersonate

bid, compete, aspire, apply, hope, seek, petition

hold, own, possess, monopolize, have

forgery, pretension, imitation, front, mannerism, device, affectation, gimmick, facade, air, guise, charade, fakery, artificiality, imposture, ostentation, pretense, deceit, impersonation, fraud, falseness

net, pocket, accumulate, procure, land, take, fetch, collect, amass, get, obtain, garner, heap, incur, score, receive, harvest, buy, wrangle, win, corner, acquire, secure, add, assume, annex, retrieve, lure, reap, catch, capture, palm, bag, purchase

annexation, accumulation, collection, appropriation, assumption, gain, acquisition, addition, procurement

alibi, stratagem, loop-hole, reason, plea, pretext, white lie, red herring, rationale, smoke screen, affirmation, excuse, justification

Usage examples:

• We must not expect to have this large claim satisfied quite immediately. - "Blind Love", Wilkie Collins.
• B's claim, therefore, is not allowed. - "Auction of To-day", Milton C. Work.
• But we claim you. - "Patty Blossom", Carolyn Wells.