Definition of "climate"

climate

/ˈklaɪ.mɪt/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural climates
1. The long-term manifestations of weather and other atmospheric conditions in a given area or country, now usually represented by the statistical summary of its weather conditions during a period long enough to ensure that representative values are obtained (generally 30 years).
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  And the effects from climate change are already extreme.
  2018, VOA Learning English > China's Melting Glacier Brings Visitors, Adds to Climate Concerns‎
2. (figuratively) The context in general of a particular political, moral, etc., situation.
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  In polling by the Pew Research Center in November 2008, fully half the respondents thought the two parties would cooperate more in the coming year, versus only 36 percent who thought the climate would grow more adversarial.
  2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times‎
  This isn't the time for militant unionism. If I were at ScotRail, in the current climate I'd trade a pay freeze [sic: pay rise?] for job security.
  2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 63
3. (obsolete) An area of the earth's surface between two parallels of latitude.
4. (obsolete) A region of the Earth.
verb
third-person singular simple present climates, present participle climating, simple past and past participle climated
1. (poetic, obsolete) To dwell.
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  The blessed gods / Purge all infection from our air whilst you / Do climate here!
  c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene i], line 169

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