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Plural of materialist

regular plural

The plural of materialist is materialists.

Forms of materialist

Singularmaterialist /məˈtiːɹɪəlɪst/
Pluralmaterialists
Countablecountable

Materialists in a sentence

  • Ironically, today's generation has become the little materialists and "fame whores" (New York Magazine's term) their boomer parents so reviled.2007 March 2, Christopher Orlet, “The Look-at-Me Generation”, in The American Spectator
  • Scholars in the first camp are culturalists; in the second, materialists.2018 September 14, Neil Gross, “Is Your Culture ‘Tight’ or ‘Loose’? The Answer Could Explain Everything”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry culturalist
  • Alrightniks are materialists; they parade their money; they lack modest, sensitive qualities.1992, Leo Rosten, The Joys of Yinglish, page 33. From the entry alrightnik
  • We materialists, after Engels, term the Kantians and Humeans, agnostics, because they deny the objective reality of the source of our sensations.1927, Collected Works of V. I. Lenin (International Publishers), volume XIII: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin [aut.] and David Kvitko [tr.]…. From the entry Humean

Meaning of materialist

  1. noun Someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions.
  2. noun A follower or proponent of philosophical materialism.
  3. adjective Of or concerning materialism.

Full definition of materialist

Questions about the plural of materialist

What is the plural of materialist?
The plural of materialist is materialists.
Is materialist countable?
Materialist is a countable noun.

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