Nature Definition
- Synonyms:
- animation
- generation
- restoration
- regeneration
- quickening
- energy
- the nature of the beast
- life force
- reproductiveness
- creation
- vivification
- type
- sort
- species
- gamma-rays
Other Word Forms of Nature
Noun
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Nature
- by nature
- in a state of nature
- of the nature of
Origin of Nature
From Middle Englishnatur, nature, from Old Frenchnature, fromLatinnātÅ«ra (“birth, origin, natural constitution or quality"), future participle from perfect passive participle(g)natus (“born"), fromdeponent verb(g)nasci (“to be born, originate") + future participle suffix-urus. Replaced native Middle Englishcunde, icunde (“nature, property, type, genus, character") (from Old EnglishÄ¡ecynd), Middle Englishlund (“nature, disposition") (from Old Norselund), Middle Englishburthe (“nature, birth, nation") (from Old EnglishÄ¡ebyrd and Old Norse*byrðr). More atkind.
FromWiktionary
Middle Englishessential properties of a thingfrom Old Frenchfrom Latinnātūrafromnātuspast participle ofnāscīto be borngenə- in Indo-European roots
FromAmerican Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Nature Sentence Examples
This is yournature, you just don't know it yet.
It was in hisnature, and it was something that wasn't going to change.
It is intermediate in itsnature between land and sky.
Nature was at her peak, blending the wild blooms with various shades of green.
The tall trees were draped in a white robe that had drifted to the earth, not snarled their way downward like the wind driven Eastern storms where snow was a dirty word, not the magical hush that mothernature bestowed on the mountains of the west.
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