clime
/klaɪm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.94 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The context in general of a particular political, moral, etc., situation.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "After working hard all of his life, Max retired to warmer climes in Florida."
- "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?"
- "My ſoul turn from them, turn we to ſurvey / Where rougher climes a nobler race diſplay,"
- ""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[.]""
- "She thought of her husband in some vague warm clime on the other side of the globe, while she was here in the cold."
- "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."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “(zone of) latitude”, literally “inclination”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to slope, incline”). See also climate.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: κλίμα