paleoclimate
noun
paleoclimate is a noun meaning “The climate of the Earth at a specified point in geologic time” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-A-L-E-O-C-L-I-M-A-T-E, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of paleoclimate is paleoclimates.
What does paleoclimate mean?
noun
- 1
The climate of the Earth at a specified point in geologic time.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce paleoclimate?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-paleoclimate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of paleoclimate
- paleoclimates plural
- palaeoclimate
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is paleoclimate?
Paleoclimate appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 133,440th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Paleoclimate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense the climate of the Earth at a specified point in geologic time:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | paléoclimat |
| Portuguese | paleoclima |
| Spanish | paleoclima |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does paleoclimate come from?
From paleo- + climate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).