Mater is a formal Latin term for mother and may refer to:
Places
- Mater, Belgium, a village near Oudenaarde
Health care
Australia
- Mater Hospital, North Sydney, New South Wales
- Mater Group, Brisbane, Queensland
- Mater Health Services North Queensland, which incorporates:
- Mater Hospital Pimlico, Townsville, Queensland
- Mater Women's and Children's Hospital
UK and Ireland
- Mater Infirmorum Hospital, Belfast, Northern Ireland
- Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland (the best-known hospital in Ireland that is referred to as the Mater)
- Mater Private Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Music
- Mater, an album by Vladimír Godár
- "Mater", a song by The Beat Fleet from Pistaccio Metallic, 2011
Other uses
- Mater (Cars), a character in the Disney/Pixar animated film Cars
- Mater, a major part of an astrolabe
- M.A.T.E.R., a football (soccer) club in Rome
People
- Juris Māters (1845–1885), Latvian writer and journalist
- Rudy Mater (born 1980), French footballer
See also
- Dura mater, the outermost layer of the meninges surrounding the brain and spinal cord in mammals
- Arachnoid mater, the middle layer of the meninges surrounding the brain and spinal cord in mammals
- Pia mater, the innermost layer of the meninges surrounding the brain and spinal cord in mammals