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nature — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • kind noun A type or category of thing that shares common features with others.
  • nature noun The physical world and everything in it — plants, animals, landscapes, and natural forces — as distinct from human-made things.
  • plain adj Simple and without decoration or extra features.
  • wildlife noun Wild animals living in their natural environment, collectively.

Senses

nature is used for these senses in English:

  • kind Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
  • lexical category (linguistics) A linguistic category of words (or more precisely lexical items), generally defined by the syntactic or morphological behaviour of the lexical item in question, such as nouns or verbs.
  • plain Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable. [from 14th c.]
  • unseasoned Not sprinkled with seasoning.
  • wildlife (often, attributive) undomesticated animals, especially mammals, birds, and fish, which live in the wild.

kind — full definition

  1. noun A type or category of thing that shares common features with others.
  2. adj Friendly, generous, and considerate toward others.

nature — full definition

  1. noun The physical world and everything in it — plants, animals, landscapes, and natural forces — as distinct from human-made things.
  2. noun A person or thing's essential character — the qualities that make them who or what they fundamentally are.
  3. noun The general type or category something belongs to.

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