matter
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: human-sciences
law
medicine
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English matere, mater, from Anglo-Norman matere, materie, from Old French materie, matiere, from Latin māteria (“wood”), from māter (“mother”), in which case cognate with Old Armenian մայր (mayr, “cedar”) and մայրի (mayri, “forest”). Doublet of Madeira, mata, mater, matrix, and mother.
Displaced Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”), from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”), Old English intinga (“matter, affair, business”).
Inflected forms:
form: matters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: matters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mattering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mattered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mattered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Material; substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Material; substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Material; substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: vegetable matter
gloss: Material; substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: He always took some reading matter with him on the plane.
gloss: Material; substance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Something is the matter with him.
The diplomats met to discuss state matters.
So in many armies, if the matter ſhould bee tried by duell betvvene tvvo Champions, the victory ſhould goe on the one ſide, & yet if it be tried by the groſſe, it vvould goe on the other ſide: for excellencies goe as it vvere by chance, but kinds goe by a more certaine Nature, as by Diſcipline in vvarre.
Son of God, Saviour of men! Thy name / Shall be the copious matter of my song.
Every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge.
The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.
The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
gloss: An approximate amount or extent.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I stayed for a matter of months.
No small matter of British forces were commanded over sea the year before.
Away he goes, […] a matter of seven miles.
[…] I have Thoughts to tarry a ſmall Matter in Town, to learn ſomewhat of your Lingo firſt, before I croſs the Seas.
gloss: Legal services provided by a lawyer or firm to their client in relation to a particular issue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Please find attached an invoice for three outstanding matters.
gloss: Essence; pith; embodiment.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: He is the matter of virtue.
gloss: (The) inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: And this is the matter why interpreters upon that passage in Hosea will not consent it to be a true story, that the prophet took a harlot to wife.
gloss: Pus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: Importance.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: What matter if we unrewarded must strive, / If Wall Street and gamblers around it may thrive? / What matter if we doubly pay for our food / To support the monopolist kings of the road?
gloss: To be important.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
stative
examples: The only thing that matters to Jim is being rich.
Sorry for pouring ketchup on your clean white shirt! - Oh, don't worry, it does not matter.
As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,[…]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get.[…]I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
Despite further attempts by Agbonlahor and Young, however, they could not find the goal to reward their endeavour.
It mattered little as Newcastle's challenge faded and Villa began to dominate the game in midfield, and it was only Barton's continued sense of injustice that offered the visitors any spark in a tame contest.
Not all platforms are equal. Some are busier and thus more important than others. A rural station that doesn't comply matters less than a major London terminus.
gloss: To care about, to mind; to find important.
pos: verb
tags: Caribbean
England
regional
transitive
examples: Besides, if it had been out of doors I had not mattered it so much; but with my own servant, in my own house, under my own roof […]
He matter'd not that, he said; coy maids made the fondest wives […].
gloss: To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
intransitive
examples: Each slight sore mattereth.
Synonyms: material
stuff
substance
hyle
Derived words: a little matter
a matter
another matter
anti-matter
as a matter of fact
as a matter of factly
as a matter of law
a small matter
back matter
back-matter
baryonic dark matter
baryonic matter
biomatter
body matter
bymatter
cold dark matter
condensed matter
condensed matter physicist
condensed matter physics
dark matter
degenerate matter
dry matter
end matter
fact of the matter
fæcal matter
faecal matter
fecal matter
for that matter
front matter
front-matter
gray matter
grey matter
hot dark matter
inscribed matter
let the matter drop
light matter
magmatter
matter at hand
matterative
matterful
mattergy
matterless
matterlike
matternet
Matter of Britain
matter of course
matter of fact
matter-of-fact
matter-of-factish
matter-of-factly
matter-of-factness
matter of law
matter of life and death
matter of life or death
matter of record
matter of time
matter painting
mattersome
matterwave
mattery
mind over matter
mirror matter
neutron-degenerate matter
neutron matter
no laughing matter
no matter
no matter how one slices it
no matter that
no matter what
non-baryonic dark matter
nonmatter
organic matter
overmatter
particulate matter
phase of matter
printed matter
programmable matter
proto-matter
protomatter
quark matter
shadow matter
some little matter
some small matter
starmatter
state of matter
strange matter
strange quark matter
strongly symmetric matter
subject-matter
subject matter
subject matter jurisdiction
take matters into one's own hands
take the matter into one's own hands
thank you for your attention to this matter
upon the matter
upon the whole matter
warm dark matter
weakly symmetric matter
what is the matter
what's the matter
white matter
all lives matter
black lives matter
blue lives matter
it doesn't matter
it doesn't matter what they say about you as long as they spell your name right
police lives matter
what does it matter
white lives matter
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: lëndë
lang: Arabic
word: مَادَّة
roman: mādda
lang: Armenian
word: նյութ
roman: nyutʻ
lang: Assamese
word: পদাৰ্থ
roman: podartho
lang: Azerbaijani
word: maddə
lang: Azerbaijani
word: materiya
lang: Bashkir
word: матдә
roman: matdə
lang: Belarusian
word: матэ́рыя
roman: matéryja
lang: Bengali
word: পদার্থ
roman: podartho
lang: Bihari
word: पदार्थ
lang: Bulgarian
word: мате́рия
roman: matérija
lang: Burmese
word: ဒြပ်
roman: drap
lang: Catalan
word: matèria
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 物質 /物质
roman: mat⁶ zat¹
lang: Eastern Min Chinese
word: 物質 /物质
roman: ŭk-cék
lang: Chinese
word: 物質 /物质
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 物質 /物质
roman: wùzhì, wùzhí
lang: Wu Chinese
word: 物質 /物质
roman: ⁸veq-tseq
lang: Czech
word: hmota
lang: Danish
word: stof
lang: Doteli
word: पदार्थ
roman: padārtha
lang: Dutch
word: materie
lang: Esperanto
word: materio
lang: Estonian
word: aine
lang: Finnish
word: aine
lang: French
word: matière
lang: West-Frisian
word: matearje
lang: Galician
word: materia
lang: Georgian
word: მატერია
roman: maṭeria
lang: German
word: Materie
lang: Greek
word: ύλη
roman: ýli
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ὕλη
roman: húlē
lang: Gujarati
word: પદાર્થ
roman: padārth
lang: Hebrew
word: חומר \ חֹמֶר
roman: khómer
lang: Hindi
word: पदार्थ
roman: padārth
lang: Hindi
word: माद्दा
roman: māddā
lang: Hungarian
word: anyag
lang: Hunsrik
word: Materje
lang: Icelandic
word: efni
lang: Indonesian
word: materi
lang: Irish
word: damhna
lang: Italian
word: materia
lang: Japanese
word: 物質
roman: busshitsu
lang: Kannada
word: ದ್ರವ್ಯ
roman: dravya
lang: Kazakh
word: материя
roman: materiä
lang: Kazakh
word: зат
roman: zat
lang: Khmer
word: វត្ថុ
roman: vŏətthoʼ
lang: Khmer
word: រូបធាតុ
roman: ruupaʼthiət
lang: Korean
word: 물질
roman: muljil
lang: Central Kurdish
word: ماکە
roman: make
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: made
lang: Kyrgyz
word: материя
roman: materiya
lang: Lao
word: ສະສານ
roman: sa sān
lang: Lao
word: ທາດ
roman: thāt
lang: Latin
word: māteria
lang: Latvian
word: matērija
lang: Lithuanian
word: materija
lang: Macedonian
word: материја
roman: materija
lang: Maithili
word: पदार्थ
roman: padārtha
lang: Malay
word: jirim
lang: Malayalam
word: ദ്രവ്യം
roman: dravyaṁ
lang: Māori
word: matū
lang: Marathi
word: पदार्थ
roman: padārtha
lang: Middle English
word: matere
lang: Mongolian
word: матери
roman: materi
lang: Mongolian
word: бодис
roman: bodis
lang: Nepali
word: पदार्थ
roman: padārtha
lang: Newar
word: पदार्थ
roman: padārtha
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: stoff
lang: Odia
word: ପଦାର୍ଥ
roman: padārtha
lang: Old English
word: andweorc
lang: Pashto
word: ماده
roman: mādá
lang: Dari
word: مَادَّه
roman: mādda
lang: Iranian Persian
word: مادِّه
roman: mâdde
lang: Polish
word: materia
lang: Portuguese
word: matéria
lang: Punjabi
word: ਪਦਾਰਥ
roman: padārath
lang: Romanian
word: materie
lang: Russian
word: мате́рия
roman: matérija
lang: Sanskrit
word: द्रव्यम्
roman: dravyam
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: тва̑р
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: ма̀те̄рија
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: tvȃr
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: màtērija
lang: Sinhalese
word: පදාර්ථය
roman: padārthaya
lang: Slovak
word: hmota
lang: Slovene
word: snov
lang: Slovene
word: materija
lang: Slovene
word: tvar
lang: Spanish
word: materia
lang: Swedish
word: materia
lang: Tagalog
word: butang
lang: Tagalog
word: likhatas
lang: Tajik
word: модда
roman: modda
lang: Tajik
word: материя
roman: materiya
lang: Tamil
word: பொருள்
roman: poruḷ
lang: Tatar
word: материя
roman: materiyä
lang: Tatar
word: матдә
roman: matdä
lang: Telugu
word: పదార్థము
roman: padārthamu
lang: Thai
word: สสาร
roman: sà-sǎan
lang: Thai
word: ธาตุ
roman: tâat
lang: Tibetan
word: དངོས་པོ
roman: dngos po
lang: Turkish
word: madde
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: ماده
roman: madde
lang: Turkmen
word: materiýa
lang: Ukrainian
word: мате́рія
roman: matérija
lang: Urdu
word: مادَّہ
roman: mādda
lang: Uyghur
word: ماددا
roman: madda
lang: Uyghur
word: ماتېرىيە
roman: matëriye
lang: Uzbek
word: materiya
lang: Uzbek
word: modda
lang: Vietnamese
word: vật chất
lang: Yiddish
word: מאַטעריע
roman: materye