A material is a solid substance.

Material is cloth.

Materials are the things that you need for a particular activity.

Ideas or information that are used as a basis for a book, play, or film can be referred to as material .

Material things are related to possessions or money, rather than to more abstract things such as ideas or values.

If you say that someone is a particular kind of material, you mean that they have the qualities or abilities to do a particular job or task.

Material evidence or information is directly relevant and important in a legal or academic argument.