climate

English

Etymology

From Middle English climat, from Old French climat, from Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “latitude”, literally “inclination”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈklaɪ.mɪt/

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• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈklaɪ.mət/

Noun

climate (countable and uncountable, plural climates)

1. 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).
   • 2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns‎^[1]:

     And the effects from climate change are already extreme.

2. (figuratively) The context in general of a particular political, moral, etc., situation.

   Industries that require a lot of fossil fuels are unlikely to be popular in the current political climate.

   • 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 63:

     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.

3. (obsolete) An area of the earth's surface between two parallels of latitude.
4. (obsolete) A region of the Earth.

Derived terms

• acclimate
• acclimatise, acclimatize
• agroclimate
• astroclimate
• bioclimate
• chilly climate
• cli-fi
• climatal
• climatarian
• climate anxiety
• climate arson, climate arsonist
• climate bond
• climate canary
• climate catastrophe
• 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 refugee
• climate sceptic
• climate science
• climate sensitivity
• climate-speak
• climate strike
• climate system
• climatewise
• climatise
• climatism
• climatist
• climatize
• 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

Related terms

• client
• climatic
• climatory
• climax
• cline
• clivus
• lean

Translations

long-term atmospheric conditions

• Afrikaans: klimaat (af)
• Albanian: klimë (sq) f
• Arabic: مَنَاخ m (manāḵ), مُنَاخ m (munāḵ)

  Egyptian Arabic: مناخ m (manāḵ), طقس m (ṭaʔs)

• Armenian: կլիմա (hy) (klima)
• Assamese: জলবায়ু (zolbayu), হাৱা-পানী (hawa-pani)
• Azerbaijani: iqlim (az)
• Belarusian: клі́мат m (klímat)
• Bengali: জলবায়ু (bn) (jolbaẏu)
• Breton: hin (br) f
• Bulgarian: кли́мат (bg) m (klímat)
• Burmese: ရာသီဥတု (my) (rasiu.tu.)
• Catalan: clima (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 氣候／气候 (hei³ hau⁶)

  Dungan: чиху (čihu)

  Eastern Min: 氣候／气候 (ké-hâiu)

  Hakka: 氣候／气候 (hi-heu)

  Hokkien: 氣候／气候 (zh-min-nan) (khì-hiō / khì-hāu / khì-hō͘)

  Mandarin: 氣候／气候 (zh) (qìhòu)

  Wu: 氣候／气候 (²qi-hheu)

• Cornish: hin f, ayredh m
• Crimean Tatar: iklim
• Czech: podnebí (cs) n, klima (cs) n
• Danish: klima (da) n
• Dutch: klimaat (nl) n
• Esperanto: klimato
• Estonian: kliima
• Faroese: veðurlag n
• Finnish: ilmasto (fi), ilmanala
• French: climat (fr) m
• Galician: clima (gl) m
• Georgian: კლიმატი (ḳlimaṭi)
• German: Klima (de) n
• Greek: κλίμα (el) n (klíma)
• Hebrew: אַקְלִים (he) m (aklím)
• Hindi: जलवायु (hi) m (jalvāyu), आब-ओ-हवा f (āb-o-havā), हवापानी (hi) (havāpānī), आबोहवा f (ābohavā)
• Hungarian: éghajlat (hu), klíma (hu)
• Icelandic: loftslag (is)
• Ido: klimato (io)
• Indonesian: iklim (id)
• Ingrian: kliimatta
• Irish: aer (ga) m, aeráid f, clíoma m
• Italian: clima (it) m
• Japanese: 気候 (ja) (きこう, kikō), 風土 (ja) (ふうど, fūdo)
• Javanese: hawagedhé
• Kannada: ಹವಾಗುಣ (kn) (havāguṇa), ಹವಾಮಾನ (kn) (havāmāna)
• Kazakh: климат (klimat)
• Khmer: ធាតុអាកាស (thiət ʼaakaah), អាកាសធាតុ (km) (ʼaakaasaʼthiət)
• Korean: 기후(氣候) (ko) (gihu)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئابوھەوا (abuhewa)

• Kyrgyz: климат (ky) (klimat)
• Lao: ພູມິອາກາດ (phū mi ʼā kāt), ອາກາດ (ʼā kāt)
• Latin: clima n
• Latvian: klimats m
• Lithuanian: klimatas (lt) m
• Macedonian: клима f (klima)
• Malay: iklim
• Mongolian: уур амьсгал (uur amʹsgal)
• Norman: clyînmat m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klima n

  Nynorsk: klima n

• Occitan: clima m
• Pashto: اقليم (ps) m (aqlím), آب وهوا (ps) f (ābohawā)
• Persian: اقلیم (fa) (eqlim), آب و هوا (fa) (âb-o-havâ)
• Plautdietsch: Witrunk f
• Polish: klimat (pl) m
• Portuguese: clima (pt) m
• Romanian: climă (ro) f
• Russian: кли́мат (ru) m (klímat)
• Santali: ᱫᱟᱜ (dak’)
• Scottish Gaelic: aimsir f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: клима f, поднебље n

  Roman: klima (sh) f, podneblje (sh) n

• Sindhi: آب هوا (sd) f
• Slovak: podnebie n, klíma n
• Slovene: podnebje (sl) n, klima (sl) f
• Spanish: clima (es) m
• Sundanese: ᮄᮊᮣᮤᮙ᮪ (iklim)
• Swahili: tabianchi (sw)
• Swedish: klimat (sv) n
• Tagalog: klima, kapanhunan
• Tajik: иқлим (tg) (iqlim), обу ҳаво (obu havo), климат (tg) (klimat)
• Tamil: தட்பவெப்பம் (ta) (taṭpaveppam), காலநிலை (ta) (kālanilai)
• Tatar: климат (klimat)
• Telugu: శీతోష్ణస్థితి (śītōṣṇasthiti)
• Thai: ภูมิอากาศ (th) (puu-mí-aa-gàat), อากาศ (th) (aa-gàat)
• Tibetan: གནམ་གཤིས (gnam gshis)
• Turkish: iklim (tr)
• Turkmen: klimat
• Ukrainian: клі́мат (uk) m (klímat), підсо́ння n (pidsónnja)
• Urdu: آب و ہوا (ur) (āb-o-havā)
• Uyghur: ئىقلىم (iqlim)
• Uzbek: klimat (uz)
• Vietnamese: khí hậu (vi) (氣候)
• Welsh: hinsawdd (cy) f
• Yiddish: קלימאַט m (klimat)

context in general of a particular political, moral etc. situation

• Bulgarian: кли́мат (bg) m (klímat)
• Catalan: clima (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 氣候／气候 (zh) (qìhòu)

• Czech: klima (cs) n
• Danish: klima (da) n
• Finnish: ilmapiiri (fi)
• French: climat (fr) m
• Galician: clima (gl) m
• German: Klima (de) n
• Italian: clima (it) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klima n

  Nynorsk: klima n

• Portuguese: clima (pt) m
• Russian: кли́мат (ru) m (klímat)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: поднебље n

  Roman: podneblje (sh) n

• Spanish: clima (es) m
• Swedish: klimat (sv) n

Verb

climate (third-person singular simple present climates, present participle climating, simple past and past participle climated)

1. (poetic, obsolete) To dwell.
   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], line 169:

     The blessed gods / Purge all infection from our air whilst you / Do climate here!

Further reading

• “climate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “climate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “climate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• amletic, metical

Latin

Noun

climate

1. ablative singular of clima