- come into being

- become reality
"Her dream really materialized"

1. To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.

"Having with wonderful art and beauty materialized, if I may so call it, a scheme of abstracted notions, and clothed the most nice, refined conceptions of philosophy in sensible images." -- Tatler.

2. To regard as matter; to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter.

3. To cause to assume a character appropriate to material things; to occupy with material interests; as, to materialize thought.

4. (Spiritualism) To make visable in, or as in, a material form; -- said of spirits.

"A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and not distinguishable from a human being." -- Epes Sargent.

1. To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape. [Colloq.]