■ noun
1》 the general weather conditions prevailing in an area over a long period.
2》 a prevailing trend or public attitude: the current economic ~.
Derivatives
climatic adjective
climatical adjective
climatically adverb
Origin
ME (orig. denoting a zone of the earth between two lines of latitude, later a region considered with ref. to its atmospheric conditions): from OFr. climat or late L. clima , climat- , from Gk klima 'slope, zone'.