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From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.
Christopher Alexander

Meaning of "nature" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD NATURE

Via Old French from Latin nātūra, from nātus, past participle of nascī to be born.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF NATURE

nature  [ˈneɪtʃə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NATURE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nature 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 NATURE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Nature

Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural, physical, or material world or universe. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general. It ranges in scale from the subatomic to the cosmic. The word nature is derived from the Latin word natura, or "essential qualities, innate disposition", and in ancient times, literally meant "birth". Natura was a Latin translation of the Greek word physis, which originally related to the intrinsic characteristics that plants, animals, and other features of the world develop of their own accord. The concept of nature as a whole, the physical universe, is one of several expansions of the original notion; it began with certain core applications of the word φύσις by pre-Socratic philosophers, and has steadily gained currency ever since. This usage continued during the advent of modern scientific method in the last several centuries. Within the various uses of the word today, "nature" often refers to geology and wildlife.

Definition of nature in the English dictionary

The first definition of nature in the dictionary is the fundamental qualities of a person or thing; identity or essential character. Other definition of nature is the whole system of the existence, arrangement, forces, and events of all physical life that are not controlled by man. Nature is also all natural phenomena and plant and animal life, as distinct from man and his creations.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NATURE


connature
kəˈneɪtʃə
denature
diːˈneɪtʃə
dictature
dɪkˈteɪtʃə
disnature
dɪsˈneɪtʃə
expenditure
ɪkˈspɛndɪtʃə
forfeiture
ˈfɔːfɪtʃə
furniture
ˈfɜːnɪtʃə
garniture
ˈɡɑːnɪtʃə
legislature
ˈlɛdʒɪsˌleɪtʃə
literature
ˈlɪtərɪtʃə
miniature
ˈmɪnɪtʃə
nourriture
ˈnʌrɪtʃə
pitcher
ˈpɪtʃə
portraiture
ˈpɔːtrɪtʃə
renature
riːˈneɪtʃə
signature
ˈsɪɡnɪtʃə
supernature
ˈsuːpərˌneɪtʃə
switcher
ˈswɪtʃə
temperature
ˈtɛmprɪtʃə
usurpature
ˌjuːzəˈpeɪtʃə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NATURE

naturalist
naturalistic
naturalistic fallacy
naturalistically
naturalization
naturalization papers
naturalize
naturalized
naturally
naturalness
Nature Conservancy
Nature Conservancy Council
nature cure
nature lover
nature reserve
nature strip
nature study
nature trail
nature worship
nature-identical

WORDS THAT END LIKE NATURE

adventure
armature
by nature
candidature
caricature
creature
curvature
feature
human nature
immature
mature
Mother Nature
nomenclature
ossature
premature
room temperature
special feature
State legislature
stature
tablature
the course of nature

Synonyms and antonyms of nature in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «NATURE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «nature» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of nature

Translation of «nature» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF NATURE

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

Translator English - Chinese

自然
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

naturaleza
570 millions of speakers

English

nature
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रकृति
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

طَبِيعَةٌ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

природа
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

natureza
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রকৃতি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

nature
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sifat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Natur
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自然
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자연
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Alam
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tự nhiên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இயற்கை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निसर्ग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

doğa
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

natura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

natura
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

природа
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

natură
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

φύση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

aard
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

natur
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

natur
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nature

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NATURE»

The term «nature» is very widely used and occupies the 1.622 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of nature
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «nature».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NATURE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «nature» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «nature» 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 nature

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10 QUOTES WITH «NATURE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word nature.
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Joseph Addison
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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Bhumibol Adulyadej
Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.
3
Christopher Alexander
From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.
4
A. R. Ammons
In nature there are few sharp lines.
5
Murray Bartlett
I'm a real nature lover, so whenever possible, I like to get to the beach or get to a forest or get somewhere there's fresh air. Apart from that, I'm a film addict and a DVD freak.
6
Martha Beck
To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.
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Heather Brooke
If any of us were faced with a huge bag of free money and very little accountability, it would be human nature that you would make the most of it.
8
Pat Buckley
I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
9
L. Sprague de Camp
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
10
J. C. Chandor
We print money. The people that print the money is actually us. The government of the United States of America. By its very nature, we control that, and this system is there as representation of us.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NATURE»

Discover the use of nature in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nature and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Handbook of Nature Study
Provides lessons on many topics of nature study, with questions that may form the basis for student projects.
Anna Botsford Comstock, 1939
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Nature
"Nature is an advanced introduction to its topic. For students, it aims to inform and to challenge by showing that nature is not what it seems to be.
Noel Castree, 2005
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The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making
Discusses how books were written, printed, and distributed in early modern England; the relationships among authors, printers, booksellers, and government officials; and the impact of technological innovation.
Adrian Johns, 1998
4
Nature
Describes the education, training, earnings, and outlook associated with twenty careers in nature, including biologists, botanists, ecologists, environmental engineers, geologists, and oceanographers.
Facts On File, Incorporated, 2010
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The Fractal Geometry of Nature
Three classic fractals, tamed. Galaxies and eddies. Scaling fractals. Nonscaling fractals. Self-mapping fractals. Randomness. Stratified random fractals. Fractional brown fractals. A book-within-the-book, in color. Random tremas; texture.
Benoit B. Mandelbrot, 1983
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On Nature and Language
This is followed by some of Chomsky's recent writings on these themes, together with a penetrating interview in which Chomsky provides the clearest and most elegant introduction to current theory available.
Noam Chomsky, Adriana Belletti, Luigi Rizzi, 2002
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Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild
Thoreau's Nature: Ethics, Politics, and the Wild explores how Thoreau crafted a life open to 'the Wild, ' a term that marks the startling element of foreignness in every object of experience, however familiar.
Jane Bennett, 2002
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The Experience of Nature: A Psychological Perspective
In this volume concerning the natural environment, people, and the relationship between them, Rachel and Stephen Kaplan offer the first research-based analysis of the vital psychological role that nature plays in our lives.
Rachel Kaplan, Stephen Kaplan, 1989
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Nature's Services: Societal Dependence On Natural Ecosystems
The book enhances our understanding of the value of the natural systems that surround us and can play an essential role in encouraging greater efforts to protect the earth's basic life-support systems before it is too late.
Gretchen Daily, 1997
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The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism Or the End of the ...
This second, thoroughly updated, edition of The Enemy of Nature speaks to this new environmental awareness. Joel Kovel argues against claims that we can achieve a better environment through the current Western "way of being".
Joel Kovel, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NATURE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term nature is used in the context of the following news items.
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Researchers quantify nature's role in human well-being
A structure in the Wolong Nature Reserve in southwestern China suffered heavy damage during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. Credit: Wei ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
2
DNA–nanoparticle crystals: Exploiting shape complementarity
Writing in Nature Materials, Chad Mirkin and collaborators hypothesized that the interplay of complementarities in nanoparticle size and shape ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
3
Superconductivity: The FeSe riddle
Writing in Nature Materials, Kosuke Nakayama and colleagues shed some light on this lively debate, by investigating the superconducting ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
4
Keep nature out with nature
Keep nature out with nature ... and bends highlighted in the finished structure — creates a gate just a short step removed from Mother Nature. «The Columbian, Jul 15»
5
Damon Lane: 1-on-1 interview with Mother Nature
OKLAHOMA CITY —DAMON LANE: Thank you Mother Nature for taking the time to sit down with me. I know you are busy. I have a few ... «KOCO Oklahoma City, Jul 15»
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Share “Nature to light up during Martin Park's...”
Naturalists will host a firefly hike from 8 to 10 p.m. Saturday at Martin Park Nature Center, 5000 W Memorial Road in Oklahoma City. The hike ... «NewsOK.com, Jul 15»
7
Dislocation networks: Shedding coherent light on defects
Writing in Nature Materials, Jesse Clark, Johannes Ihli and collaborators demonstrate the ability to non-destructively monitor the whole network ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
8
“Even Mother Nature Has An Agent”
Nature is a word with multiple meanings. We use nature to designate broadly all-things-that-exist-and-how-they-work-together-and-behave; ... «First Things, Jul 15»
9
Simple cooking methods flush arsenic out of rice
... 2015 · July; Article. Nature | News ... burden of their rice.” Journal name: Nature; DOI: doi :10.1038/nature.2015.18034 ... From nature.com ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Square strength
Careful analysis of evolved systems in nature has previously revealed a number of novel design principles that might enhance the performance ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»

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