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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “(zone of) latitude”, literally “inclination”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to slope, incline”). See also climate.
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.
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, lines 242–245: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?
1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 23:"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"
- Climate.
A change of clime was exactly what the family needed.
- (figuratively) The context in general of a particular political, moral, etc., situation.
1981 December 19, Andrew C. Irish, “Support For Gay Nurses”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 22, page 4: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.
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Etymology 2
Verb
clime (plural climes)
- (colloquial) Misspelling of climb.
Noun
clime (third-person singular simple present climes, present participle climing, simple past and past participle climed)
- (colloquial) Misspelling of climb.
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