unclaimed
/ənklˈeɪmd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.94 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not claimed.
Example Sentences
- "Any unclaimed items of luggage may be destroyed."
- "The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common."
- "On his first day, Safdar went with another driver to collect one of the unclaimed bodies frequently found on the streets of Karachi."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English claimed English unclaimed From un- + claimed.