Usually means: Substance that occupies space, mass.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. matter, the matter: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. matter, the matter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. matter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. matter, the matter: Collins English Dictionary
  5. matter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Matter, matter, matter: Wordnik
  7. matter, the matter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Matter, matter, the matter: Wiktionary
  9. matter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. matter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. matter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. matter, the matter: Dictionary.com
  13. matter: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. matter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Matter (album), Matter (disambiguation), Matter (magazine), Matter (novel), Matter (philosophy), Matter (venue), Matter (video game), Matter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Matter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. matter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. matter: Rhymezone
  19. matter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. matter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. matter: Free Dictionary
  22. matter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. matter: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. matter: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. matter: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. matter: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Matter (physics), matter: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Matter (physics), matter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Matter (physics), matter: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. matter: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Matter: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Matter: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  3. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  5. Accelerator Glossary (No longer online)
  6. MATTER: Zoom Astronomy Glossary
  7. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. matter, matter: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Explosives (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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