climate change

1. 1.

   a change in the world's climate

   Synonymsglobal climate change

   Broadertemperature change

Questions about climate change

What does climate change mean?

climate change means "a change in the world's climate".

What is another word for climate change?

Close synonyms include global climate change. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is climate change a common word?

climate change is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.