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Noun [English]

IPA: /klaɪm/ Audio: En-us-clime.ogg Forms: climes [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪm Etymology: From Latin clima, from Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “(zone of) latitude”, literally “inclination”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to slope, incline”). See also climate. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|clima}} Latin clima, {{der|en|grc|κλίμα||(zone of) latitude|lit=inclination}} Ancient Greek κλίμα (klíma, “(zone of) latitude”, literally “inclination”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} clime (countable and uncountable, plural climes)
  1. A particular region defined by its weather or climate. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-clime-en-noun-gsxoXWfH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 2 17 32 32 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 35 2 17 23 23 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 43 2 13 21 21
  2. Climate. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-clime-en-noun-r6gkxuIj
  3. (figuratively) The context in general of a particular political, moral, etc., situation. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable
    Sense id: en-clime-en-noun-jt1lI5Zh Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 2 17 32 32
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: bioclime, homoclime
Etymology number: 1

Noun [English]

IPA: /klaɪm/ Audio: En-us-clime.ogg Forms: climes [present, singular, third-person], climing [participle, present], climed [participle, past], climed [past]
Rhymes: -aɪm Head templates: {{en-verb}} clime (third-person singular simple present climes, present participle climing, simple past and past participle climed)
  1. (colloquial) Misspelling of climb. Tags: alt-of, colloquial, misspelling Alternative form of: climb
    Sense id: en-clime-en-noun-Box~tic6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 2 17 32 32
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb [English]

IPA: /klaɪm/ Audio: En-us-clime.ogg Forms: climes [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪm Head templates: {{en-noun}} clime (plural climes)
  1. (colloquial) Misspelling of climb. Tags: alt-of, colloquial, misspelling Alternative form of: climb
    Sense id: en-clime-en-verb-Box~tic6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 2 17 32 32
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (b941637 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.