clime

Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “(zone of) latitude”, literally “inclination”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to slope, incline”). See also climate.

• IPA^(key): /ˈklaɪm/
• Rhymes: -aɪm
• Homophone: climb

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clime (countable and uncountable, plural climes)

1. 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,

2. Climate.

   A change of clime was exactly what the family needed.

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