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materiel

/mətɪəɹɪˈɛl/US/mətɪɹiˈɛl/

materiel noun: military equipment, apparatus, and supplies.

Noun

materiel (countable and uncountable, plural materiels)

  1. Military equipment, apparatus, and supplies.
    • Instead, it was a 1941 Volkswagen Kübelwagen Type 82, the first acquisition in a collection of war matériel begun 10 years ago by Mr. Coffman, a refrigeration service technician from Marengo, Ill.2012 December 15, Tudor Van Hampton, “Check-to-Check Combat Over Vintage War Matériel”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

materiel meaning in Urdu and Thai

materiel in Urdu

اسباب, سامان

materiel in Thai

military equipment, apparatus and supplies
ยุทโธปกรณ์

Forms of materiel

pluralmateriels
alternative formmatériel

Origin of materiel

Borrowed from French matériel. Doublet of material.

Words formed from materiel

Questions about materiel

What does materiel mean?
Materiel means military equipment, apparatus, and supplies.
What is materiel in Urdu?
Materiel in Urdu is اسباب, سامان. See Materiel meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is materiel?
Materiel is a noun.
How do you pronounce materiel?
Materiel is pronounced /mətɪəɹɪˈɛl/ (UK).
What is the plural of materiel?
The plural of materiel is materiels.

Words near materiel in the dictionary

  1. materials sciences
  2. materiarian
  3. materiarians
  4. materiate
  5. materiation
  6. materiel
  7. materiels
  8. materiology
  9. materiomic
  10. materiomics
  11. materious

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: materiel (page history and authors); materiel (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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