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# temperate

«temperate» in Mova's school dictionary: **never extremely hot or extremely cold, with warm summers…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (temperate)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A temperate climate or place is never extremely hot or extremely cold, with warm summers and cool winters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temperate/#m1)

2) A temperate person is calm and controls their feelings and habits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temperate/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and science, the Earth is split into climate zones: tropical (hot, near the equator), temperate (mild, between the tropics and the polar areas) and polar (very cold). The UK, Ireland, New Zealand, most of the USA, southern Canada and southern Australia have temperate climates with four seasons. Temperate forests have trees that lose leaves in autumn; temperate rainforests are cool and wet. Phrases: temperate climate, temperate zone, temperate forest, temperate rainforest.

### examples

- Britain has a temperate climate, so it is rarely very hot or very cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temperate/#x1)
- Temperate places usually have four seasons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temperate/#x2)
- Oak and maple trees grow in temperate forests. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temperate/#x3)
- New Zealand has temperate rainforests full of ferns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temperate/#x4)
- The temperate zone lies between the tropics and the poles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temperate/#x5)
- Penguins live in cold places, but some live in temperate New Zealand too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temperate/#x6)
- But the mind of Becfola was not of this temperate quality, and, lacking Crimthann, it seemed to her that she possessed nothing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/temperate/#x7)

### note

Adjective only. Related to «temperature» but not the same word: temperate describes a mild climate. Opposites: tropical (hot) and polar (cold). The person sense (calm, moderate) is rare for children.

### In the corpora

- [The temperate zones lie between the tropics and the poles and have four seasons.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/16-climate-zones/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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