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climate
What does climate mean?
climate (noun): the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use climate in a sentence?
How do you pronounce climate?
/ˈklaɪmət/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does climate come from?
From Middle English climat, from Old French climat, from Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “latitude”, literally “inclination”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to climate
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “climate” mean?
a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
Not quite: that's what store means.
any factual evidence that helps to establish the truth of something
Not quite: that's what proof means.
the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time
Right! That's what “climate” means.
(biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms
Not quite: that's what cell means.
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