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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
John Burroughs

Meaning of "natural history" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF NATURAL HISTORY

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NATURAL HISTORY

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Natural history is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NATURAL HISTORY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

natural history

Natural history

Natural history is the research and study of organisms including plants or animals in their environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. It encompasses scientific research but is not limited to it, with articles nowadays more often published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study of any category of natural objects or organisms. That is a very broad designation in a world filled with many narrowly focused disciplines. So while natural history dates historically from studies in the ancient Greco-Roman world and the mediaeval Arabic world, through to the scattered European Renaissance scientists working in near isolation, today's field is more of a cross discipline umbrella of many specialty sciences. For example, geobiology has a strong multi-disciplinary nature combining scientists and scientific knowledge of many specialty sciences. A person who studies natural history is known as a naturalist or "natural historian".

Definition of natural history in the English dictionary

The first definition of natural history in the dictionary is the study of animals and plants in the wild state. Other definition of natural history is the study of all natural phenomena. Natural history is also the sum of these phenomena in a given place or at a given time.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NATURAL HISTORY

natural causes
natural childbirth
natural classification
natural deduction
natural disaster
natural frequency
natural gas
natural gender
natural historian
natural immunity
natural justice
natural language
natural language processing
natural law
natural logarithm
natural monopoly
natural number
natural philosopher
natural philosophy
natural rate of unemployment

WORDS THAT END LIKE NATURAL HISTORY

alternative history
ancient history
back story
cover story
credit history
directory
ghost story
history
horror story
life story
love story
medical history
oral history
prehistory
service history
short story
sob story
social history
story
success story
the same old story

Synonyms and antonyms of natural history in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «natural history» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NATURAL HISTORY

Find out the translation of natural history to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of natural history from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «natural history» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自然史
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

historia natural
570 millions of speakers

English

natural history
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्राकृतिक इतिहास
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

التاريخ الطبيعي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

естественная история
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

história natural
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রাকৃতিক ইতিহাস
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

histoire naturelle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

sejarah semulajadi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Naturkunde
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

博物学
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자연사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Sejarah alam
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bác vật học
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இயற்கை வரலாறு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नैसर्गिक इतिहास
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

doğal Tarih
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

storia naturale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Historia naturalna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

природна історія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

istorie naturală
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

φυσικής ιστορίας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

natuurlike geskiedenis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

naturhistoria
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

naturhistorie
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of natural history

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NATURAL HISTORY»

The term «natural history» is very widely used and occupies the 18.343 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NATURAL HISTORY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «natural history» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «natural history» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about natural history

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9 QUOTES WITH «NATURAL HISTORY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word natural history.
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Charles Babbage
To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed, of several other departments of science, affords useful assistance.
2
John Burroughs
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
3
Deborah Moggach
I have a hippopotamus skull next to my bed, called Gregory. When I was six, my three sisters and I clubbed together and paid £4 for it in a junk shop. We collected owl pellets, ostrich eggs and sheep skulls for our natural history museum at home.
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David Nicholls
For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.
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Matt Ridley
I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.
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Alfred Rosenberg
Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
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Ernest Thompson Seton
I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.
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Alfred Russel Wallace
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
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Gilbert White
The French, I think, in general, are strangely prolix in their natural history.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NATURAL HISTORY»

Discover the use of natural history in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to natural history and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Natural History: The Ultimate Visual Guide to Everything on ...
With oversight from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, this detailed visual guide examines thousands of species and specimens of animals, plants and minerals that make Earth unique.
Kathryn Hennessy, Becky Alexander, Ann Baggaley, 2010
2
A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion
A biologist and an anthropologist use evolutionary biology to explain the causes and inform the prevention of rape.
Randy Thornhill, Craig T. Palmer, 2001
3
Cultures of Natural History
An introduction discusses novel approaches that have made this a major focus for research in cultural history. The essays, which include suggestions for further reading, offer a coherent and accessible overview of a fascinating subject.
N. Jardine, J. A. Secord, E. C. Spary, 1996
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A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert
"This fine book offers one-stop shopping for authoritative answers to all your questions about a most wonderful place, the Sonoran Desert. Bees, birds, beetles, biodiversity, all right here in one place in accessible prose.
Steven J. Phillips, Patricia Wentworth Comus, 2000
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Skin: A Natural History
The rich cultural canvas of the skin is placed within its broader biological context in a complete guidebook to the pliable covering that makes humans who they are.
Nina G. Jablonski, 2008
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The Natural History of Puget Sound Country
Mankind's effects upon the natural environment are a pervasive theme of the book. Kruckeberg looks at both positive and negative aspects of human interaction with nature in the Puget basin.
Arthur R. Kruckeberg, 1995
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Water: A Natural History
Step by step, Outwater makes clear what should have always been obvious: while engineering can depollute water, only ecologically interacting systems can create healthy waterways.Important reading for students of environmental studies, the ...
Alice Outwater, 2008
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The Birds of America
This edition has 65 new images, making a total of 500.
John James Audubon, 1840
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A Natural History of Domesticated Mammals
This new edition of A Natural History of Domesticated Mammals explores the progress which has been made in understanding the origins of domestication and its spread, both biologically and culturally, across the world.
Juliet Clutton-Brock, 1999
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Natural Histories: Extraordinary Rare Book Selections from ...
This beautiful book will fascinate natural science and art lovers alike.
Tom Baione, 2014

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NATURAL HISTORY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term natural history is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Trilobite Treasures' to be showcased at Natural History Museum in …
The Natural History Museum is open from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday and is located 1.8 miles off Exit 13 on Interstate 26. For more ... «Bristol Herald Courier, Jul 15»
2
New York's Museum Of Natural History is Bringing Back Its …
For $350, you can explore the museum after hours, like a precocious Tenenbaum child on the lamb. Building on the success of last year's ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
3
Library to host Natural History Museum exhibit
This exhibit will be in the Community Room and is limited to the first 150 people to get tickets. Tickets will be given out at 10 a.m. at the Youth ... «The Sylva Herald, Jul 15»
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Sir David Attenborough to Narrate BBC America's Natural History
New York – July 22, 2015 – BBC AMERICA announced today that famed naturalist, Sir David Attenborough, will narrate the channel's first ... «TVbytheNumbers, Jul 15»
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Natural History Museum's Dippy the dinosaur to go on holiday
The Natural History Museum is inviting any indoor museum in the UK with enough space to accommodate the giant Victorian cast of a ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Natural History Museum's Expansion Plans Launch Tug of War Over …
Pushback from Upper West Side residents to the American Museum of Natural History's plans to build an expanded science complex that ... «New York Observer, Jul 15»
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Inside the Natural History Museum's Stinky, Awesome Whale …
The enormous whale skeleton suspended in a glass enclosure at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles in Exposition Park is, of course, ... «Curbed LA, Jul 15»
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David Attenborough returns to the BBC for new natural history series …
THE BBC have given those in the anti-licence fee camp just why their £24 a month is a worthwhile investment with the announcement Sir David ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
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Natural History Museum curators eye New Horizon Pluto images for …
Photographs from New Horizon's milestone flyby of Pluto are to be featured in an exhibition at the Natural History Museum celebrating our solar ... «Culture24, Jul 15»
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Crocodiles are coming to Midwest Museum of Natural History
SYCAMORE – Rob Carmichael from the Wildlife Discovery Center is coming to the Midwest Museum of Natural History at 1 p.m. Saturday. «DeKalb Daily Chronicle, Jul 15»

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