| mate | (noun) a chess move constituting an inescapable and indefensible attack on the opponent's king | Synonyms: checkmate |
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| (noun) an exact duplicate | Synonyms: match |
| (noun) South American tea-like drink made from leaves of a South American holly called mate | - |
| (noun) a person's partner in marriage | Synonyms: better half, married person, partner, spouse |
| (noun) the partner of an animal (especially a sexual partner) | - |
| (noun) the officer below the master on a commercial ship | Synonyms: first mate |
| (noun) informal term for a friend of the same sex | - |
| (noun) a fellow member of a team | Synonyms: teammate |
| (noun) South American holly; leaves used in making a drink like tea | Synonyms: Ilex paraguariensis, Paraguay tea |
| (noun) one of a pair | Synonyms: fellow |
| (verb) place an opponent's king under an attack from which it cannot escape and thus ending the game | Synonyms: checkmate |
| (verb) engage in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: copulate, couple, pair |
| (verb) bring two objects, ideas, or people together | Synonyms: couple, match, pair, twin |
| mated | (adjective) mated sexually | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a marriage partner | - |
| (adjective) occurring in pairs or as a pair | Synonyms: paired |
| mateless | (adjective) of someone who has no marriage partner | - |
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| (adjective) without a sexual mate | - |
| matelote | (noun) highly seasoned soup or stew made of freshwater fishes (eel, carp, perch) with wine and stock | - |
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| mater | (noun) an informal use of the Latin word for mother; sometimes used by British schoolboys or used facetiously | - |
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| materfamilias | (noun) a female head of a family or tribe | Synonyms: matriarch |
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| material | (adjective) derived from or composed of matter | - |
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| (adjective) directly relevant to a matter especially a law case | - |
| (adjective) having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary | Synonyms: real, substantial |
| (adjective) having material or physical form or substance | Synonyms: corporeal |
| (adjective) concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being | - |
| (adjective) concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests | - |
| (noun) artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers | Synonyms: cloth, fabric, textile |
| (noun) things needed for doing or making something | - |
| (noun) information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form | - |
| (noun) a person judged suitable for admission or employment | - |
| (noun) the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object | Synonyms: stuff |
| materialisation | (noun) an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) | Synonyms: manifestation, materialization |
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| (noun) something that comes into existence as a result | Synonyms: materialization, offspring |
| (noun) the process of coming into being; becoming reality | Synonyms: materialization |
| materialise | (verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: happen, materialize |
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| materialism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality | Synonyms: physicalism |
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| (noun) a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters | Synonyms: philistinism |
| materialist | (noun) someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter | - |
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| (noun) someone with great regard for material possessions | - |
| materialistic | (adjective) conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class | Synonyms: bourgeois, conservative |
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| (adjective) marked by materialism | Synonyms: mercenary, worldly-minded |
| materialistically | (adverb) in a materialistic manner | - |
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| materiality | (noun) the quality of being physical; consisting of matter | Synonyms: corporality, corporeality, physicalness |
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| (noun) relevance requiring careful consideration | - |
| materialization | (noun) an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) | Synonyms: manifestation, materialisation |
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| (noun) something that comes into existence as a result | Synonyms: materialisation, offspring |
| (noun) the process of coming into being; becoming reality | Synonyms: materialisation |
| materialize | (verb) come into being; become reality | Synonyms: happen, materialise |
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| materially | (adverb) with respect to material aspects | - |
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| (adverb) to a significant degree | - |
| materiel | (noun) equipment and supplies of a military force | Synonyms: equipage |
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| maternal | (adjective) characteristic of a mother | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent | Synonyms: parental, paternal |
| (adjective) relating to or derived from one's mother | - |
| (adjective) related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enate, enatic |
| maternalism | (noun) motherly care; behavior characteristic of a mother; the practice of acting as a mother does toward her children | - |
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| (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternity, motherliness |
| maternalistic | (adjective) showing maternal instincts | - |
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| maternally | (adverb) in a maternal manner; as a mother | Synonyms: motherly |
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| maternity | (noun) the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother | Synonyms: maternal quality, maternalism, motherliness |
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| (noun) the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother | Synonyms: motherhood |
| (noun) the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | Synonyms: gestation, pregnancy |
| mates | (noun) a pair of people who live together | Synonyms: couple, match |
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| matey | (adjective) (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals | Synonyms: chummy, pally, palsy-walsy |
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