Word.ws English Dictionary

paleoclimate

paleoclimate noun: the climate of the Earth at a specified point in geologic time.

Noun

paleoclimate (plural paleoclimates)

  1. The climate of the Earth at a specified point in geologic time.

Forms of paleoclimate

pluralpaleoclimates
alternative formpalaeoclimate

Origin of paleoclimate

From paleo- + climate.

Words formed from paleoclimate

  • paleoclimate modelling

Questions about paleoclimate

What does paleoclimate mean?
Paleoclimate means the climate of the Earth at a specified point in geologic time.
What part of speech is paleoclimate?
Paleoclimate is a noun.
What is the plural of paleoclimate?
The plural of paleoclimate is paleoclimates.

Words near paleoclimate in the dictionary

  1. paleochristian
  2. paleochronological
  3. paleochronology
  4. paleocirculation
  5. paleoclassical
  6. paleoclimate
  7. paleoclimates
  8. paleoclimatic
  9. paleoclimatical
  10. paleoclimatically
  11. paleoclimatological

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: paleoclimate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-paleoclimate.wav.

Cite this entry: “paleoclimate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/paleoclimate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.