"body matter" meaning in English

See body matter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} body matter (uncountable)
  1. Within a book, the main portion of text, excluding the front matter and back matter. Wikipedia link: Book design Tags: uncountable Synonyms: body text, body matter, main text Holonyms: book Related terms: back matter, end matter, front matter
    Sense id: en-body_matter-en-noun-AfzW8Z2k Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for body matter meaning in English (1.1kB)

{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:body matter",
      "word": "back matter"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:body matter",
      "word": "front matter"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "body matter (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Within a book, the main portion of text, excluding the front matter and back matter."
      ],
      "holonyms": [
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:body matter",
          "word": "book"
        }
      ],
      "id": "en-body_matter-en-noun-AfzW8Z2k",
      "links": [
        [
          "front matter",
          "front matter"
        ],
        [
          "back matter",
          "back matter"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "back matter"
        },
        {
          "word": "end matter"
        },
        {
          "word": "front matter"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "body text"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:body matter",
          "word": "body matter"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:body matter",
          "word": "main text"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Book design"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "body matter"
}
{
  "antonyms": [
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:body matter",
      "word": "back matter"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:body matter",
      "word": "front matter"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "body matter (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "holonyms": [
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:body matter",
      "word": "book"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "back matter"
    },
    {
      "word": "end matter"
    },
    {
      "word": "front matter"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Within a book, the main portion of text, excluding the front matter and back matter."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "front matter",
          "front matter"
        ],
        [
          "back matter",
          "back matter"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Book design"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "body text"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:body matter",
      "word": "body matter"
    },
    {
      "source": "Thesaurus:body matter",
      "word": "main text"
    }
  ],
  "word": "body matter"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.