clime
/klaɪm/
clime noun: a particular region defined by its weather or climate. Also the misspelling of climb.
Noun
clime (countable and uncountable, plural climes)
- 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?1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, lines 242–245
- Climate.
- A change of clime was exactly what the family needed.
- 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.1981 December 19, Andrew C. Irish, “Support For Gay Nurses”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 22, page 4
Also used as
clime is also the misspelling of climb.
Examples of clime in a sentence
- My ſoul turn from them, turn we to ſurvey / Where rougher climes a nobler race diſplay,1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society. A Poem. […], London: […] J[ohn] Newbery...
- She thought of her husband in some vague warm clime on the other side of the globe, while she was here in the cold.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London...
Forms of clime
| plural | climes |
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Origin of clime
Borrowed from Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “(zone of) latitude”, literally “inclination”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to slope, incline”). See also climate.
Words formed from clime
Words that rhyme with clime
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Questions about clime
- What does clime mean?
- Clime means a particular region defined by its weather or climate.
- How do you use clime in a sentence?
- My ſoul turn from them, turn we to ſurvey / Where rougher climes a nobler race diſplay,
- What part of speech is clime?
- Clime is a noun.
- How do you pronounce clime?
- Clime is pronounced /klaɪm/.
- What is the plural of clime?
- The plural of clime is climes.
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