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# climate

«climate» in Mova's school dictionary: **its usual weather over many years, such as hot and dry or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a climate, climates; climate, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The climate of a place is its usual weather over many years, such as hot and dry or cold and wet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climate/#m1)

2) Climate change means the Earth's climate is slowly changing, mostly getting warmer, largely because of gases people release by burning fuel. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climate/#m2)

3) The climate of a group is its general mood: a friendly climate in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climate/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science, climate is different from weather: weather is what happens today, climate is the pattern over about 30 years. Climate zones: tropical, desert, temperate, polar. Environment lessons: saving energy and planting trees help with climate change. Phrases: climate change, a warm climate, climate zone.

### examples

- The climate in the desert is hot and dry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climate/#x1)
- Ireland has a mild, wet climate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climate/#x2)
- Polar bears live in a very cold climate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climate/#x3)
- Climate change is melting the ice at the poles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climate/#x4)
- Bananas grow in a tropical climate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climate/#x5)
- Weather changes every day, but climate changes slowly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climate/#x6)
- Canada has a cold climate in the north. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climate/#x7)
- There was a happy climate in our classroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climate/#x8)
- The climate in the north of Europe is really dreadful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climate/#x9)

### note

Weather vs climate is a classic trap: «It is snowing» is weather, «It snows a lot here in winter» is climate. Pronounced KLY-mit; spelled with -ate at the end.

### In the corpora

- [When climates changed, forests shrank and, in some places, people arrived and hunted, so many giants died out.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus/5/)
- [When the Ice Age ended, the climate warmed fast, grassland turned to forest and people hunted more.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses/6/)
- [The animals built for the cold steppe disappeared, though scientists still argue how much was climate and how much was people.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses/7/)
- [In Europa Universalis 5 a whole location gets one climate label, like a stamp.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/21-climate-zones-and-why-they-are-where-they-are/7/)
- [Climate is the long average of weather over thirty years or more, the way your mood today differs from your whole personality.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/23-weather-storms-and-the-changing-climate/1/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «climate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/climate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.