'Climate' definitions:
Definition of 'climate'
From: WordNet
noun
The weather in some location averaged over some long period of time; "the dank climate of southern Wales"; "plants from a cold clime travel best in winter" [syn: climate, clime]
noun
The prevailing psychological state; "the climate of opinion"; "the national mood had changed radically since the last election" [syn: climate, mood]
Definition of 'Climate'
From: GCIDE
- Climate \Cli"mate\, v. i. To dwell. [Poetic] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Climate'
From: GCIDE
- Climate \Cli"mate\, n. [F. climat, L. clima, -atis, fr. Gr. ?, ?, slope, the supposed slope of the earth (from the equator toward the pole), hence a region or zone of the earth, fr. ? to slope, incline, akin to E. lean, v. i. See Lean, v. i., and cf. Clime.]
- 1. (Anc. Geog.) One of thirty regions or zones, parallel to the equator, into which the surface of the earth from the equator to the pole was divided, according to the successive increase of the length of the midsummer day. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'climate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- air,
- ambiance,
- ambience,
- ambient,
- Antarctic Zone,
- Arctic Circle,
- Arctic Zone,
- atmosphere,
- aura,
- calm weather,
- climate of opinion,
- clime,
- cold weather,
- equator,
- ethos,
- fair weather,
- feel,
- feeling,
- forces of nature,
- Frigid Zones,
- good weather,
- halcyon days,
- horse latitudes,
- hot weather,
- ideology,
- intellectual climate,
- latitude,
- longitude,
- longitude in arc,
- macroclimate,
- medium,
- meridian,
- microclimate,
- milieu,
- mise-en-scene,
- mood,
- moral climate,
- mores,
- norms,
- note,
- overtone,
- parallel,
- prime meridian,
- quality,
- rainy weather,
- roaring forties,
- sense,
- spirit,
- spiritual climate,
- stormy weather,
- subtropics,
- surroundings,
- the elements,
- the line,
- tone,
- Torrid Zone,
- tropic,
- Tropic of Cancer,
- Tropic of Capricorn,
- tropics,
- undertone,
- Variable Zones,
- weather,
- Weltanschauung,
- windiness,
- world view,
- zone