matter
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Is matter a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
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What is the meaning of matter?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) Material; substance.countableuncountable
2. (uncountable) Material; substance.Antonyms: antimattercountableuncountable
3. (uncountable) Material; substance.Examples: "vegetable matter"countableuncountable
4. (uncountable) Material; substance.Examples: "He always took some reading matter with him on the plane."countableuncountable
5. (uncountable) Material; substance.countableuncountable
6. (countable, law) Legal services provided by a lawyer or firm to their client in relation to a particular issue.Examples: "Please find attached an invoice for three outstanding matters."countable
verb (English)
1. (intransitive, stative) To be important.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."Synonyms: signifyintransitivestative
2. (transitive, in negative constructions, now England regional, Caribbean) To care about, to mind; to find important.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 […]."CaribbeanEnglandregionaltransitive
3. (intransitive, medicine, archaic) To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.Examples: "Each slight sore mattereth."archaicintransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary