Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Temperate \Tem"per*ate\, a. [L. temperatus, p. p. of temperare. See Temper, v. t.]
Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate.
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Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as, temperate language.
She is not hot, but temperate as the morn.
--Shak.That sober freedom out of which there springs Our loyal passion for our temperate kings.
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Moderate in the indulgence of the natural appetites or passions; as, temperate in eating and drinking.
Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.
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Proceeding from temperance. [R.]
The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air.
--Pope.Temperate zone (Geog.), that part of the earth which lies between either tropic and the corresponding polar circle; -- so called because the heat is less than in the torrid zone, and the cold less than in the frigid zones.
Syn: Abstemious; sober; calm; cool; sedate.
Wiktionary
n. Those parts of the Earth's surface between the tropics and the polar regions
Usage examples of "temperate zone".
Central China, Korea, Japan, United States, southern Europe, Morocco, Turkey, Lebanon, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Kashmir are all in the north temperate zone.
The south temperate zone includes only the southern portions of Australia, South America, and Africa.
It is well known that the cold of Tartary is much more severe than in the midst of the temperate zone might reasonably be expected.
The days were still short, but without fuss or proclamation, Armada had passed into a temperate zone of the sea.
The ground around it was mostly sports fields, with a constant all-year-round climate, approximating the start of a temperate zone autumn.
The forest around him would have looked half familiar and oddly strange to someone used to the temperate zone of Earth.
Only a rather narrow temperate zone on Earth could meet all these requirements, as well as the need for the long, flat areas suitable for landings.
The temperate zone that tracked the equator was home to a correspondingly greater variety of life, of which the gnarter was by no means the most outlandish example.
Finally we were more or less out of the hard winter and into a more temperate zone.