the typical weather conditions of a place over many years, including temperature, rain or snow, and winds
The climate in the desert is hot and dry all year round.
Scientists warn that Earth’s climate is getting warmer.
✦ Late Middle English from Latin ‘clima’ meaning ‘slope, region’, later ‘weather of a region’.
the overall feeling, attitude, or situation that influences how people think and act in a particular place or time
After the robbery, there was a climate of fear in the neighborhood.
The new laws created a positive climate for investment.
✦ Transferred figurative use recorded from the mid-19th century, extending the idea of regional weather to describe a general feeling or situation.
