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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

clima

. See

A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See

Turn we to sutvey,
Where rougher

climes

a nobler race display.

Goldsmith.

Noun.

A climate; a tract or region of the earth; a poetical word, but sometimes used in prose. [See Climate.]

Whatever clime the suns bright circle warms.

clime ‎(plural climes)

A particular region as defined by its weather or climate.
After working hard all of his life, Max retired to warmer climes in Florida.
- 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society, page 9:
  My ſoul turn from them, turn we to ſurvey
  Where rougher climes a nobler race diſplay,
Climate.
A change of clime was exactly what the family needed.