natural resource

1. 1.

   resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature

   Synonymsnatural resources

   Broaderresource

   Narrowerland resourcesmineral resourcesrenewable resource

Questions about natural resource

What does natural resource mean?

natural resource means "resources (actual and potential) supplied by nature".

What is another word for natural resource?

Close synonyms include natural resources. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is natural resource a common word?

natural resource is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.