clime

plural climes

1. countableuncountableA particular region defined by its weather or climate.

   After working hard all of his life, Max retired to warmer climes in Florida.

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   Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime, Said then the lost Arch-Angel, this the seat That we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom For that celestial light?

   1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, lines 242–245

   My ſoul turn from them, turn we to ſurvey / Where rougher climes a nobler race diſplay,

   1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society. A Poem. […], London: […] J[ohn] Newbery, […], →OCLC, page 9

   "And as their valour, so you trow, defied on aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore, so many changing skies their manhood tried, such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"

   1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 23

   She thought of her husband in some vague warm clime on the other side of the globe, while she was here in the cold.

   1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC

   She had not yielded for an instant to the enervating charm of the tropics, but contrariwise was more active, more worldly, more decided than anyone in a temperate clime would have thought it possible to be.

   1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC

2. countableuncountableClimate.

   A change of clime was exactly what the family needed.

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

   It is a poor state of affairs this great nation is in at present. The current political clime is pregnant with attempts and desired to make lawful such discriminatory acts based on factors within an individual's constitution which are beyond her/his control.

   1981 December 19, Andrew C. Irish, “Support For Gay Nurses”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 22, page 4

1. colloquialmisspellingMisspelling of climb.

1. colloquialmisspellingMisspelling of climb.