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say it: KLAHY-muht
climate is a noun meaning "the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time". It is pronounced /ˈklaɪmət/ — KLAHY-muht. It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
the prevailing psychological state
“the climate of opinion”
“the national mood had changed radically since the last election”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for climate come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.