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Etymology[edit]
From Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “(zone of) latitude”, literally “inclination”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to slope, incline”). See also climate.
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Noun[edit]
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?
- 1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society. A Poem. […], London: […] J[ohn] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 9:
- My ſoul turn from them, turn we to ſurvey / Where rougher climes a nobler race diſplay,
- 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[.]"
- 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC:
- She thought of her husband in some vague warm clime on the other side of the globe, while she was here in the cold.
- 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
- She had not yielded for an instant to the enervating charm of the tropics, but contrariwise was more active, more worldly, more decided than anyone in a temperate clime would have thought it possible to be.
- Climate.
- A change of clime was exactly what the family needed.
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