About The Word Climate

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Climate

Climate Meaning & Definition
Climate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Climate?

[n] the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time
[n] the prevailing psychological state; "the climate of opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since the last election"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Climate: clime | mood

Related Terms | Find terms related to Climate: air | ambiance | ambience | ambient | Antarctic Zone | Arctic Circle | Arctic Zone | atmosphere | aura | calm weather | climate of opinion | clime | cold weather | equator | ethos | fair weather | feel | feeling | forces of nature | Frigid Zones | good weather | halcyon days | horse latitudes | hot weather | ideology | intellectual climate | latitude | longitude | longitude in arc | macroclimate | medium | meridian | microclimate | milieu | mise-en-scene | mood | moral climate | mores | norms | note | overtone | parallel | prime meridian | quality | rainy weather | roaring forties | sense | spirit | spiritual climate | stormy weather | subtropics | surroundings | the elements | the line | tone | Torrid Zone | tropic | Tropic of Cancer | Tropic of Capricorn | tropics | undertone | Variable Zones | weather | Weltanschauung | windiness | world view | zone

See Also | condition | environmental condition | status

Climate In Webster's Dictionary

\Cli"mate\, n. [F. climat, L. clima, -atis, fr. Gr. ?, ?, slope, the supposed slope of the earth (from the equator toward the pole), hence a region or zone of the earth, fr. ? to slope, incline, akin to E. lean, v. i. See {Lean}, v. i., and cf. {Clime}.] 1. (Anc. Geog.) One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day. 2. The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life.
\Cli"mate\, v. i. To dwell. [Poetic] --Shak.

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