climate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklaɪ.mɪt/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /ˈklaɪ.mət/
note: Indic
ipa: /klaj.meʈ/
Forms: form: climates
Etymology: From Middle English climat, from Old French climat, from Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “latitude”, literally “inclination”).
Senses: examples: text: As fruits of hotter countries, transearthed in colder climates, have vigour enough in themselves to be fructuous according to their nature: but, that they are hindered by the chilling nips of the air, and the soil, wherein they are planted.
ref: 1904, Owen Felltham, William Henry Oliphant Smeaton, Resolves:
text: And the effects from climate change are already extreme.
ref: 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns:
glosses: The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions in a given area or country, now usually represented by the statistical summary of its weather conditions during a period long enough to ensure that representative values are obtained (generally 30 years).
examples: text: Industries that require a lot of fossil fuels are unlikely to be popular in the current political climate.
text: In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial.
ref: 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times:
text: This isn't the time for militant unionism. If I were at ScotRail, in the current climate I'd trade a pay freeze [sic: pay rise?] for job security.
ref: 2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 63:
glosses: The context in general of a particular political, moral, etc., situation.
glosses: An area of the earth's surface between two parallels of latitude.
glosses: A region of the Earth.
Derived terms: acclimate
acclimatise
acclimatize
agroclimate
astroclimate
bioclimate
chilly climate
cli-fi
climatal
climatarian
climatastrophe
climate anxiety
climate arson
climate arsonist
climate bond
climate breakdown
climate canary
climate catastrophe
climate chamber
climate change
climate-changing
climate-changed
climate control
climate-controlled
climate criminal
climate crisis
climate denial
climate denialism
climate denialist
climate denier
climate despair
climate emergency
climateer
climate finance
climate fire
Climategate
climate grief
climate hawk
climate hoax
climate justice
climate migrant
climate neutrality
climate refugee
climate sceptic
climate skeptic
climate science
climate sensitivity
climate-speak
climate strike
climate system
climatewise
climatise
climatism
climatist
climatize
climatized
climatography
climatology
climatologic
climatological
climatologically
climatologist
climatonomy
climatotherapy
climature
climatype
climigrant
climigration
climo-
ecoclimate
geoclimate
hydroclimate
Köppen climate classification
macroclimate
marine climate
Mediterranean climate
mesoclimate
microclimate
miniclimate
organizational climate
paleoclimate
pedoclimate
political climate
pyroclimate
subclimate
thermoclimate
topoclimate
Related terms: client
climatic
climatory
climax
cline
clivus
lean