material

Meanings

Adjective

• Having to do with matter; consisting of matter.
• Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.
• Significant.

Noun

• Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
• Text written for a specific purpose.
• A sample or specimens for study.
• Cloth to be made into a garment. Fabric.
• A person, or people collectively, who are qualified for a certain position or activity.
• Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book.
• The substance that something is made or composed of.
• All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard.

Verb

• To form from matter; to materialize.

Related

Similar words

• mundane

Origin

• From Middle English material, from Late Latin māteriālis, from Latin māteria ("wood, material, substance"), from māter. Displaced native (from ). materiel.