Nature

Quick meaning: Nature is a noun meaning The particular way someone or something is, especially.

Meaning

The particular way someone or something is, especially.

More Meanings

1. A requirement or powerful impulse of the body's physical form, especially
2. (now rare) A product of the body's physical form, especially semen and vaginal fluids, menstrual fluid, and (obsolete) feces.
3. (now rare) A part of the body's physical form, especially (obsolete) the female genitalia.
4. The vital functions or strength of someone or something, especially (now dialect) as requiring nourishment or careful maintenance or (medicine) as a force of regeneration without special treatment.
5. (uncountable, often capitalized) The way things are, the totality of all things in the physical universe and their order, especially the physical world in contrast to spiritual realms and flora and fauna as distinct from human conventions, art, and technology.
6. (obsolete) To endow with natural qualities.

Example Sentences

Nature doesn't lie.

The laws of nature are written in the language of mathematics.

Tectonic activity is part of nature, so there's no way to stop earthquakes.

I oft admire How Nature, wise and frugal, could commit Such disproportions.

Word Forms

• natures
• natuer
• naturing
• natured

Synonyms for nature

Depending on context, synonyms include essence, wild, existence, macrocosm, world, creation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include world, existence, macrocosm, creation, wild, universe.

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