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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. someone who claims a benefit or right or title;
- Example: "claimants of unemployment compensation"
- Example: "he was a claimant to the throne"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Claimant \Claim"ant\, n. [Cf. OF. clamant, p. pr. of clamer. Cf. Clamant.] One who claims; one who asserts a right or title; a claimer. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

claimant n 1: someone who claims a benefit or right or title; "claimants of unemployment compensation"; "he was a claimant to the throne"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

27 Moby Thesaurus words for "claimant": accusant, accuser, allegator, appellant, applicant, aspirant, bidder, candidate, complainant, delator, impeacher, impugner, indictor, informer, libelant, party, petitioner, plaintiff, postulant, prosecutor, seeker, solicitant, solicitor, suitor, suppliant, supplicant, the prosecution
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

CLAIMANT. In the courts of admiralty, when the suit is in rem, the cause is entitled in the Dame of the libellant against the thing libelled, as A B v. Ten cases of calico and it preserves that title through the whole progress of the suit.When a person is authorized and admitted to defend the libel, he is called the claimant. The United States v. 1960 bags of coffee; 8 Cranch, R. 398; United States v. The Mars; 8 Cranch, R. 417; 30 hhds. of sugar, (Brentzon, claimant, v. Boyle. 9 Cranch, R. 191.