One of four seasons. In the Standard stress system, it's accented as zīma.
The derived relational adjective is zimski winter. A frequently used collocation (set combination of adjective + noun) is zimska salama, often just zimska, a type of salami.
There's a related adverb zimi in wintertime.
Colloquially, zima can be used instead of hladno in weather and personal experience expressions, e.g.:
zima mi je = hladno mi je I'm cold
