materialist : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: materialist	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for materialist
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
materialist n someone with great regard for material possessions someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Materialist \Mate"rial*ist\, n. [Cf. F. mat[82]rialiste.] 1. One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter. 2. One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the idealist, who denies it. --Berkeley.