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clime

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clime  (klm)
n.
Climate: in search of warmer climes.

[Middle English, region of the earth, from Late Latin clima, from Greek klima; see climate.]

clime [klaɪm]
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) Poetic a region or its climate
[from Late Latin clima; see climate]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.clime - the weather in some location averaged over some long period of timeclime - the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time; "the dank climate of southern Wales"; "plants from a cold clime travel best in winter"
environmental condition - the state of the environment
Translations
clime [klaɪm] N (liter) (= climate) → clima m; (= country) → región f
in warmer/sunnier climesen tierras or regiones más cálidas/soleadas
he went off to foreign climesse marchó a tierras extranjeras
clime
n (old, liter)Himmelsstrich (old, liter), → Landstrich (geh) m; in these climesin diesen Breiten; he moved to warmer climeser zog in wärmere Breiten


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It grieved him to think that his little Alice, who was a flower bud fresh from paradise, must open her leaves to the rough breezes of the world, or ever open them in any clime.
She had not yielded for an instant to the enervating charm of the tropics, but contrariwise was more active, more worldly, more decided than anyone in a temperate clime would have thought it possible to be.
He it was whom Tarzan had left in charge of the warriors who remained to guard Lady Greystoke, nor could a braver or more loyal guardian have been found in any clime or upon any soil.
 
 
 
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