spec. temperate zone: Each of the two zones or belts of the earth's surface lying between the torrid and frigid zones; i.e. the north temperate zone…

With plural agreement. The belt of calms and light airs which borders the northern edge of the N.E. trade-winds.

(originally) †land that receives a lot of sunshine (obsolete); (subsequently) a country, region, or place with a sunny climate.

A country or region covered with or characterized by the presence of ice (in early use also: an iceberg); (also) a realm of perpetual ice.

the place with the lowest mean annual temperature (in its hemisphere); = cold pole n. at cold, adj. compounds 4.

the area of the earth's surface over which a storm spreads itself; also figurative.

a belt or zone of clouds; spec. = cloud-ring n.

the cloudy zone of calms and variable winds at some distance on each side of the equator.

a region subject to heavy snowfalls; also attributive.

The swampy coniferous forest area of Siberia; also, the zone of temperate coniferous forest stretching across Europe and North America.

= storm-belt n.

a belt or zone in which storms occur periodically.

in high latitudes, the place of lowest temperature.

Originally U.S. In extended use: a person regarded as cold or (emotionally) unresponsive; (also) a place or a region that is characteristically cold…