CLIME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does clime mean? 

• CLIME (noun)
  The noun CLIME has 1 sense:

1. the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time

  Familiarity information: CLIME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLIME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The weather in some location averaged over some long period of time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

climate; clime

Context example:

plants from a cold clime travel best in winter

Hypernyms ("clime" is a kind of...):

environmental condition (the state of the environment)

 Context examples 

“Micawber,” returned Mrs. Micawber, “there, you are wrong. You are going out, Micawber, to this distant clime, to strengthen, not to weaken, the connexion between yourself and Albion.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You may take the maniac with you to England; confine her with due attendance and precautions at Thornfield: then travel yourself to what clime you will, and form what new tie you like.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Here fluttered many an outland pennon, bearing symbol and blazonry from the banks of the Danube, the wilds of Lithuania and the mountain strongholds of Hungary; for chivalry was of no clime and of no race, nor was any land so wild that the fame and name of the prince had not sounded through it from border to border.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To have surrendered to temptation; listened to passion; made no painful effort—no struggle;—but to have sunk down in the silken snare; fallen asleep on the flowers covering it; wakened in a southern clime, amongst the luxuries of a pleasure villa: to have been now living in France, Mr. Rochester's mistress; delirious with his love half my time—for he would—oh, yes, he would have loved me well for a while.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Perfect beauty is a strong expression; but I do not retrace or qualify it: as sweet features as ever the temperate clime of Albion moulded; as pure hues of rose and lily as ever her humid gales and vapoury skies generated and screened, justified, in this instance, the term.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)