[ˈneɪtʃə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations
(e.g: the breathtaking beauty of nature)

- the basic or inherent features, character, or qualities of something
(e.g: helping them to realize the nature of their problems)


Phrases:
- against nature
- from nature
- get back to nature
- in a state of nature
- in the nature of
- in the nature of things
- someone's better nature
- the call of nature
- the nature of the beast

Origin:
Middle English (denoting the physical power of a person): from Old French, from Latin natura ‘birth, nature, quality’, from nat- ‘born’, from the verb nasci