climates
- 1Plural of climate.
Coastal regions tend to have milder climates than inland areas.
Researchers compared the climates of two continents over several decades.
Note
A regular plural, used when the noun is counted. Climate is often uncountable (a shift in climate), but it takes the plural when distinct places or periods are compared, as in milder climates. The figurative sense counts too: political and moral climates. Older writing used the plural for regions of the earth, or for bands between parallels of latitude. That meaning is now obsolete.
climates is a form of climate
climate, noun: The long-term pattern of weather and atmospheric conditions in an area, usually summarized statistically over a period of about thirty years. Full entry
- Forms
- climateclimates plural
- Spelling
- climate → climates: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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