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| climacteric | (n) a period in a man's life corresponding to menopause |
| climactic | (adj) consisting of or causing a climax, Ant. anticlimactic, Example: a climactic development |
| climate | (n) the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time, Syn. clime, Example: the dank climate of southern Wales; plants from a cold clime travel best in winter |
| climate | (n) the prevailing psychological state, Syn. mood, Example: the climate of opinion; the national mood had changed radically since the last election |
| climate change | (n) a change in the world's climate, Syn. global climate change |
| climatic | (adj) of or relating to a climate, Syn. climatical, Example: climatic changes |
| climatically | (adv) with respect to climate, Example: they were used to a climatically different environment |
| climatic zone | (n) any of the geographical zones loosely divided according to prevailing climate and latitude |
| climatologist | (n) someone who is expert in climatology |
| climatology | (n) meteorology of climates and their phenomena |
| Climacter | n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;, prop., round of a ladder, fr. &unr_; ladder: cf. F. climactère. See Climax. ] See Climacteric, n. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Climacteric | a. [ L. climactericus, Gr. &unr_;. See Climacter. ] Relating to a climacteric; critical. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Climacteric | n. It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Climacterical | a. & n. See Climacteric. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Climactic | a. Of or pertaining to a climax; forming, or of the nature of, a climax, or ascending series. A fourth kind of parallelism . . . is still sufficiently marked to be noticed by the side of those described by Lowth, viz., climactic parallelism (sometimes called “ascending rhythm”). S. R. Driver. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] |
| Climatal | a. Climatic. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Climatarchic | a. [ Climate + Gr. &unr_; to rule. ] Presiding over, or regulating, climates. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Climate | v. i. To dwell. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Climate | n. [ F. climat, L. clima, -atis, fr. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, slope, the supposed slope of the earth (from the equator toward the pole), hence a region or zone of the earth, fr. &unr_; to slope, incline, akin to E. lean, v. i. See Lean, v. i., and cf. Clime. ] |
| Climatic | a. Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate. [ 1913 Webster ] |