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
New Zealand Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Auckland, now Allevia Hospital Epsom
Music Mater, an album by Vladimír Godár "Mater", a song by The Beat Fleet from Pistaccio Metallic, 2011
Other uses Tow Mater, a character in the Cars franchise 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