nature meaning
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- Nature, in the broadest sense, is the natural, physical, or material world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. The study of nature is a large part of science.
- The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura, or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant "birth".
- Within the various uses of the word today, "nature" often refers to geology and wildlife.
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- NounPLnaturesSUF-ure
- NU The natural world; consisting of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production and design. e.g. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.
- The innate characteristics of a thing. What something will tend by its own constitution, to be or do. Distinct from what might be expected or intended.
- The summary of everything that has to do with biological, chemical and physical states and events in the physical universe.
- Conformity to that which is natural, as distinguished from that which is artificial, or forced, or remote from actual experience.
- Kind, sort; character; quality.
- OBS Physical constitution or existence; the vital powers; the natural life.
- OBS Natural affection or reverence.
- NU The natural world; consisting of all things unaffected by or predating human technology, production and design. e.g. the ecosystem, the natural environment, virgin ground, unmodified species, laws of nature.
- VerbSGnaturesPRnaturingPT, PPnatured
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Mother Nature interspersed a few dandelions among the petunias, but it was a pretty garden, anyway.
- At the end of her book we feel we know these couples as intimately as if we were part of their circle, but the ultimate nature of each relationship is left inviolate in its unknowability.
- The cross-culturally common properties of other-initiated repair make it one of the most vivid demonstrations of the ultrasocial nature of humans.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Nature 'publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries.
- Nature called, so I stepped into the woods and watered a tree.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- It is the creation of a verist, of a naturalist, founded on a clear and intimate perception of nature.
- Zoophilism bears witness to a new human being, one who no longer fears nature.
- Yet the latter, 'and his works, shall eternally coendure with the former, and the unoriginated principles of his moral nature!
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of nature in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Singularia tantum
- Uncountable nouns
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- Countable nouns
- Verbs
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Source: Wiktionary