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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
nature/ˈneɪtʃə(r)/

▶noun

1 the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, and the landscape, as opposed to humans or human creations.
■ the physical force that is regarded as causing and regulating these phenomena.

2 the basic or inherent features, qualities, or character of a person or thing.
■ inborn or hereditary characteristics as an influence on or determinant of personality.
Often contrasted with nurture.
■ archaic a person of a specified character.

– phrases
one's better nature one's capacity for tolerance, generosity, or sympathy.
in the nature of things inevitable or inevitably.
in a state of nature

1 in an uncivilized or uncultivated state.

2 totally naked.

3 Christian Theology in a morally unregenerate condition, unredeemed by divine grace.

the nature of the beast informal the inherent or essential character of something.

– derivatives
-natured adjective.

– origin ME: from OFr., from L. natura ‘birth, nature, quality’, from nat-, nasci ‘be born’.

'nature' also found in these Oxford entries:

accident - accidental - -acea - -aceae - -acean - -aceous - aesthetics - agnostic - amphibian - animality - anthropomorphous - Apollonian - assess - assumptive - astrophysics - back-to-nature - be - being - buxom - caducity - call - Chalcedonian - character - circumstance - coincide - coincidence - comment - competitive - composition - conformable - contrary - corybantic - course - cut - daemon - damned - declarative - decretal - define - definition - defy - deity - deontology - determinant - dharma - diagnosis - diagnostic - Dionysiac - disguise - distinct

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