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matter

English

  1. 🔊 that which has mass and occupies space
    “physicists study both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it”
  2. 🔊 (used with negation) having consequence
    “they were friends and it was no matter who won the games”
  3. 🔊 a vaguely specified concern
    “several matters to attend to”
  4. 🔊 a problem
    “is anything the matter?”
  5. 🔊 written works (especially in books or magazines)
    “he always took some reading matter with him on the plane”
  6. 🔊 some situation or event that is thought about
    “he kept drifting off the topic”
  7. 🔊 have weight
    “It does not matter much”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 sujeto matter
  2. 🔊 asunto matter, issue, business
  3. 🔊 cuestión matter, question, issue
  4. 🔊 importar to matter, to be important [with a ‘someone’] (often translated idiomatically with English care or mind, with subject and object reversed)

Similar words

affair thing topic subject issue count weigh activities activity ado affair affairs air ambition amount amount to something amplitude annoyance anxiety argument article aspect aspiration atom