materialist Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone with great regard for material possessions
  2. noun someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter

WordNet

Ma*te"ri*al*ist noun
Etymology
Cf. F. matérialiste.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913