lay claim
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.47 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To state that something belongs to oneself.
Example Sentences
- "Spencer University lays claim to the recently published discovery."
- "Argentina also lays claim to what is now Queen Elizabeth Land, as well as to other South Atlantic dependencies including South Georgia and the uninhabited South Sandwich Islands."
- "Just ahead of the auction, though, a potential heir from outside the family, laid claim on the work, according to Austria's Der Standard newspaper."