(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
someone who claims a benefit or right or title- claimants of unemployment compensation
- he was a claimant to the throne
- She suggests that claimants work through an attorney rather than dealing directly with the liability insurance company.
- The settlement will be split among three claimants.
- While the remains of Jim Hall were discovered on a dozen mountain-sides by greedy claimants for bloodmoney.Jack London -- White Fang
- There was none, but the difficulty of providing for so many claimants.James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
- 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.Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
- "Another new claimant of the Crown!" cried the officer.Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
- The law is clear: it doth not require the claimant to prove ye are slaves, it requireth you to prove ye are not.Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
- He did not know that Clyde Toomey had bought the land again from the Mexican claimants.Louis L'Amour -- The Broken Gun
- He had taken the purse to the police commissioner of the quarter, as a lost article placed by the finder at the disposal of claimants.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- She'd nodded stiffly, her face impassive, and the captain of her guard had raised his crossbow and shot the claimant for her hand through the heart.Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
- But this didn't happen—not for us and not for any of those other claimants to the estate.Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
- With no direct heir, there are sure to be many claimants contending for the Hornwood lands.George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
- Hide him under the Rock and he becomes just another claimant to the throne, no different than Stannis.George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
- Henry Green had added his name to the claimants for salvage and obtained as his lawyer William Ellsworth, who was also Governor of Connecticut at the time.Alexs Pate -- Amistad
- In two years six million dollars was thus distributed to five thousand claimants, and in the end the sum exceeded eight million dollars.W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk
- So what do I want with all this— imaginary capital, phony claimants, malice, envy?Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- There is no other claimant, I presume?Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- It was to decide who deserved this love gift that the three divine claimants repaired to Paris.Homer -- The Iliad