material body

Questions about material body

What does material body mean?

material body means "alternative names for the body of a human being".

What is another word for material body?

Close synonyms include human body, physical body, soma, build, figure. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is material body a common word?

material body is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.