clime
pronunciation
How to pronounce clime in British English:
UK [klaɪm]
How to pronounce clime in American English:
US [klaɪm]
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- Noun:
- the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time
Word Origin
- clime (n.)
- 1540s, shortening of climate (or a nativization of Latin clima). It might usefully take up the old, abandoned "horizontal region of the earth" sense of climate, but it is used chiefly by the poets and with no evident agreement on just what they mean by it.
Example
- 1. Love is a pleasing but a various clime .
- 2. Love is a pleasing but arious clime .
- 3. Love is a pleasing buta clime .
- 4. Life is a clime , but view is best .
- 5. Both of earth 's polar environments host rich webs of plants and animals-and all of these inhabitants face a changing clime .