climate
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).
Other meanings
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.”
An area of the earth's surface between two parallels of latitude.
Related words
- acclimate
- climate-controlled
- climate criminal
- climate bond
- climate canary
- agroclimate
- astroclimate
- bioclimate
- cli-fi
- climatal
- climatarian
- climateer
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "κλίμα" (latitude).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “climate” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.