climes

Definitions  ·  Examples  ·  Pronunciations  ·  Etymologies  ·  Related  ·  Statistics  ·  Comments (2)  · 
The right to food security for those that live in harsher climes is a little more complicated.

View all »
Definitions (5)

Toggle American Heritage definitions American Heritage Dictionary (1)

  1. noun Climate: in search of warmer climes.

Toggle Century definitions Century Dictionary (2)

Toggle GNU Webster definitions GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

Toggle WordNet definitions WordNet (1)

Toggle elsewhere links Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (50)

  • In a large and mixed collection of birds from all climes, an amateur must make up his or her mind to suffer many losses which, in most cases, it is impossible to prevent. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • The right to food security for those that live in harsher climes is a little more complicated. —  University of Toronto -- News@UofT
  • Like all inhabitants of semi-tropic climes, there had ever been shown by her people natural love and aptitude for melody. —  Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
  • The darkness came rushing on with a rapidity unknown in northern climes, and shrouded her from our sight. —  My First Voyage to Southern Seas
  • Choose your corks of the best quality, and steep them in pure strong spirit from the evening before you begin your bottling operation; this precaution is essentially necessary to all beer intended to be shipped, or sent off to a warmer climate than our own, such as the East and West Indies, South America, &c.; In more temperate climes, the simple precaution of filtering alone will be found to answer every necessary purpose, without steeping the corks in spirits. —  The American Practical Brewer and Tanner
 

Tags

climes hasn't been tagged yet.

Sign up or sign in to add tags.

Stats

This word has been looked up 15 times.

On Twitter

Photos from

flickr images
 

Pronunciations
Record your own »

If you'd like to prod us on getting a pronunciation for this word, sign in (or sign up) and let us know.

Charts

frequency chart

Bubble size: how much this word was used in a year

Bubble height: used more or less than expected, vs. all uses evenly distributed

You can expect to see this word about twice a month.

Recently looked up

al · impressionistic · quarta · unprofessional · brutal

Recent Favorites

pygopagus · sanglant · Astacus · sweetbread · qualms

Recent Pronunciations

be careful! the razor is razor-sharp! · minty-fresh death threat · please stop sucking the monkeybread · beauregard · unicycle hockey