Usually means: Had significance or importance; relevant.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. mattered: Merriam-Webster
  2. mattered: Collins English Dictionary
  3. mattered: Vocabulary.com
  4. Mattered, mattered: Wordnik
  5. mattered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. mattered: Wiktionary
  7. Mattered, mattered: Dictionary.com
  8. mattered: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Mattered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Mattered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. mattered: FreeDictionary.org
  12. mattered: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mattered: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mattered: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mattered: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mattered: Idioms

(Note: See matter as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Matter)

noun:  (uncountable) Material; substance.
noun:  (physics) Anything with mass.
noun:  (physics) Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
noun:  A kind of substance.
noun:  Printed material, especially in books or magazines.
noun:  (philosophy) Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
noun:  An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.
noun:  An approximate amount or extent.
noun:  (countable, law) Legal services provided by a lawyer or firm to their client in relation to a particular issue.
noun:  (obsolete) Essence; pith; embodiment.
noun:  (obsolete) (The) inducing cause or reason, especially of anything disagreeable or distressing.
noun:  (dated, medicine) Pus.
noun:  (uncountable) Importance.
verb:  (intransitive, stative) To be important.
verb:  (transitive, in negative constructions, now England regional, Caribbean) To care about, to mind; to find important.
verb:  (intransitive, medicine, archaic) To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate.
noun:  A surname.
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