1.the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object;
coal is a hard black material
2.information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form;
the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography
3.things needed for doing or making something;
writing materials
4.artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers;
the fabric in the curtains was light and semitraqnsparent
5.a person judged suitable for admission or employment;
he was university material
6.concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests;
material possessions
7.derived from or composed of matter;
the material universe
8.directly relevant to a matter especially a law case;
his support made a material difference
9.concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being;
material needs
10.having material or physical form or substance;
that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible - Benjamin Jowett
11.having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary;
the substantial world