reclaim.
To return land to a suitable condition for use.
Meaning & usage
To return land to a suitable condition for use.
To obtain useful products from waste; to recycle.
To claim something back; to repossess.
To return someone to a proper course of action, or correct an error; to reform.
To tame or domesticate a wild animal.
To call back from flight or disorderly action; to call to, for the purpose of subduing or quieting.
To cry out in opposition or contradiction; to exclaim against anything; to contradict; to take exceptions.
To draw back; to give way.
To appeal from the Lord Ordinary to the inner house of the Court of Session.
To bring back a term into acceptable usage, usually of a slur, and usually by the group that was once targeted by that slur.
Once a term of homophobic abuse, the term “queer” has been reclaimed as a marker for some gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender (GLBT), and other marginalized sexual identities.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim and Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclāmō, reclāmāre. Equivalent to re- + claim.
The calling back of a hawk.
The bringing back or recalling of a person; the fetching of someone back.
An effort to take something back, to reclaim something.
Clipping of baggage reclaim.
Material recovered from something that has already been used.
Is it okay to smoke cannabis reclaim?
Where this word comes from
From Middle English reclaymen, recleymen, reclamen, from Anglo-Norman reclamer (noun reclaim and Middle French reclamer (noun reclaim), from Latin reclāmō, reclāmāre. Equivalent to re- + claim.
Try it on your idea.
reclaim has 7 characters. Say it out loud, try it alongside a description of your project, and see whether its meaning fits what you want to create.
These are naming prompts. Meanings and pronunciation can vary; existing brand and domain uses have not been checked.
Explore the name generatorA word with a source.
Definitions, grammatical labels, IPA, etymology and examples: Wiktionary contributors, extracted by Kaikki / Wiktextract. Adapted under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected fields and authored examples are shown; third-party quotations and audio are omitted. See contributor history.
Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.