clime

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsclimate

   Broaderenvironmental condition

Other forms of clime

plural

climes·

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.

Questions about clime

What does clime mean?

clime means "the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time".

How many syllables are in clime?

clime has 1 syllable: clime.

What is another word for clime?

Close synonyms include climate. 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 clime a common word?

clime 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.