matter

About 146.57 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Material; substance. Anything with mass and volume. Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.

   vegetable matter

2. noun Anything with mass and volume.
3. noun Matter made up of normal particles, not antiparticles.
4. noun A kind of substance.

   vegetable matter

5. noun Printed material, especially in books or magazines.

   He always took some reading matter with him on the plane.

6. noun Aristotelian: undeveloped potentiality subject to change and development; formlessness. Matter receives form, and becomes substance.
7. noun An affair, condition, or subject, especially one of concern or (especially when preceded by the) one that is problematic.

   Something is the matter with him.

8. noun An approximate amount or extent.

   I stayed for a matter of months.

Similar words

weigh issue count material substance topic thing subject affair antimatter

Often followed by

of how what is to in and for was

Word family

mattered mattering matters the matter