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matter   (TTS Sound)

The noun matter has 6 senses

• matter, affair, thing -- (a vaguely specified concern; "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well")


• topic, subject, issue, matter -- (some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police")


• matter -- (that which has mass and occupies space; "physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it")


• matter -- (a problem; "is anything the matter?")


• matter -- ((used with negation) having consequence; "they were friends and it was no matter who won the games")


• matter -- (written works (especially in books or magazines); "he always took some reading matter with him on the plane")

The verb matter has 1 sense

• count, matter, weigh -- (have weight; have import, carry weight; "It does not matter much")