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clime

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9
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12
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5
Pronunciation
/klaɪm/

Definition of clime

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A particular region defined by its weather or climate.
    “After working hard all of his life, Max retired to warmer climes in Florida.”
    “Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime, Said then the lost Arch-Angel, this the seat That we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom For that celestial light?”
    “My ſoul turn from them, turn we to ſurvey / Where rougher climes a nobler race diſplay,”
    “"And as their valour, so you trow, defied on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore, so many changing skies their manhood tried, such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"”
    “She thought of her husband in some vague warm clime on the other side of the globe, while she was here in the cold.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)A particular region defined by its weather or climate.
    “After working hard all of his life, Max retired to warmer climes in Florida.”
    “Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime, Said then the lost Arch-Angel, this the seat That we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom For that celestial light?”
    “My ſoul turn from them, turn we to ſurvey / Where rougher climes a nobler race diſplay,”
    “"And as their valour, so you trow, defied on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore, so many changing skies their manhood tried, such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"”
    “She thought of her husband in some vague warm clime on the other side of the globe, while she was here in the cold.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)Climate.
    “A change of clime was exactly what the family needed.”
  3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The context in general of a particular political, moral, etc., situation.
    “It is a poor state of affairs this great nation is in at present. The current political clime is pregnant with attempts and desired to make lawful such discriminatory acts based on factors within an individual's constitution which are beyond her/his control.”
  4. (alt-of, colloquial, misspelling)Misspelling of climb.

verb

  1. (alt-of, colloquial, misspelling)Misspelling of climb.

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “(zone of) latitude”, literally “inclination”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to slope, incline”). See also climate.

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