the substance or substances of which a thing is made or composed:
Stone is a durable material.
2.
anything that serves as crude or raw matter to be used or developed:
Wood pulp is the raw material from which paper is made.
3.
any constituent element.
4.
a textile fabric:
material for a dress.
5.
a group of ideas, facts, data, etc., that may provide the basis for or be incorporated into some integrated work:
to gather material for a history of North Carolina; to write material for a comedy show.
6.
materials, the articles or apparatus needed to make or do something:
writing materials.
7.
a person considered as having qualities suited to a particular sphere of activity:
The boy's teachers did not think he was college material.