1 [usuallybeforenoun] (technical) (of a climate or region) having a mild temperature without extremes of heat or cold:
temperate zones / forests / latitudes
2 (formal) behaving in a calm and controlled way
OPPof sense 2 INTEMPERATE
temperately adverb
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of temperate come from?
This entry for temperate is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is temperate a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, temperate is tagged as adjective.
Does temperate appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — temperate appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
