cli|mate

cli|mate
cli|mate «KLY miht», noun.
1. the kind of weather a place has over a period of years. Climate includes conditions of heat and cold, moisture and dryness, clearness and cloudiness, wind and calm. »

For 50 years or more…the climate of the Arctic has been warming up (Time).

2. a region with certain conditions of heat and cold, rainfall, wind, sunlight, and other aspects of weather: »

The doctor ordered him to go to a drier climate to relieve his asthma.

3. Figurative. the condition of feeling that exists, especially at some particular time: »

The climate of public opinion just before the Revolutionary War was against new British taxes. Some of our progress toward brotherhood is traceable to changes in the economic and educational climate (Saturday Review).

 SYNONYM(S): environment, surroundings.
╂[< Latin clima, -atis < Greek klíma; -atos slope (of the earth) < kl to incline]

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  • pa|le|o|cli|mate — «PAY lee oh KLY miht, PAL ee », noun. a prehistoric climate: »A new independent method has been developed to study paleoclimates based on deep ice cores from the ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland (W. Dansgaard) …   Useful english dictionary

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  • ac|cli´mat|a|ble — ac|cli|mate «uh KLY miht, AK luh mayt», transitive verb, intransitive verb, mat|ed, mat|ing. Especially U.S. to accustom or become accustomed to a new climate, surroundings, or conditions; acclimatize: »to acclimate settlers. The penguin has… …   Useful english dictionary

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  • climate — cli•mate [[t]ˈklaɪ mɪt[/t]] n. 1) mer the composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region, as temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, cloudiness, and winds, throughout the year, averaged over a series of years 2) mer… …   From formal English to slang

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