clime
English
Etymology
From Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “(zone of) latitude”, literally “inclination”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to slope, incline”). See also climate.
Pronunciation
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.
- 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society, page 9:
- My ſoul turn from them, turn we to ſurvey
Where rougher climes a nobler race diſplay,
- My ſoul turn from them, turn we to ſurvey
- Climate.
- A change of clime was exactly what the family needed.