Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

temperate zone

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.31 in modern English

Syllables: tem-per-ate -zone
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Either of the parts of the Earth's surface between the tropics and the polar regions: one such zone in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere.

Inflected Forms

temperate zones (plural)

Phrases

north temperate zone south temperate zone

Questions

What does temperate zone mean?: Either of the parts of the Earth's surface between the tropics and the polar regions: one such zone in the northern hemisphere and one in the southern hemisphere.

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