Definitions for masses

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masses mass

Spelling: [mas]

IPA: /mæs/

Masses is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in masses (aemsss).

Definitions for masses

noun

1. a body of coherent matter, usually of indefinite shape and often of considerable size:
2. a collection of incoherent particles, parts, or objects regarded as forming one body: Synonyms: assemblage, heap, congeries.
3. aggregate; whole (usually preceded by in the):
4. a considerable assemblage, number, or quantity: Synonyms: collection, accumulation, pile, conglomeration.
5. bulk, size, expanse, or massiveness: Synonyms: magnitude, dimension.
6. Fine Arts. Painting. an expanse of color or tone that defines form or shape in general outline rather than in detail. a shape or three-dimensional volume that has or gives the illusion of having weight, density, and bulk.
7. the main body, bulk, or greater part of anything: Synonyms: majority.
8. Physics. the quantity of matter as determined from its weight or from Newton's second law of motion. Abbreviation: m. Compare weight (def 2), relativistic mass, rest mass.
9. Pharmacology. a preparation of thick, pasty consistency, from which pills are made.
10. the masses, the ordinary or common people as a whole; the working classes or the lower social classes. Synonyms: proletariat, plebeians.
11. a stroke made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held almost or quite perpendicular to the table.
12. the celebration of the Eucharist. Compare High Mass, Low Mass.
13. (sometimes lowercase) a musical setting of certain parts of this service, as the Kyrie eleison, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei.

adjective

1. pertaining to, involving, or affecting a large number of people:
2. participated in or performed by a large number of people, especially together in a group:
3. pertaining to, involving, or characteristic of the mass of the people:
4. reaching or designed to reach a large number of people:
5. done on a large scale or in large quantities:

verb (used with object)

1. to gather into or dispose in a mass or masses; assemble: Synonyms: collect, marshal, amass, aggregate. Antonyms: disperse.

verb (used without object)

1. to come together in or form a mass or masses:

Origin of masses

1350-1400; Middle English masse Latin massa mass Greek mâza barley cake, akin to mássein to knead

Examples for masses

“In a sense, the masses are not organized,” says Lo, who is with the South China Morning Post.

In masses and mobs they needed kings and rulers but could not choose them.

After all, it is the masses that free a nation, and thank God for it.

I acknowledge my obligations to the masses of my countrymen, and to them alone.

masses of Asia have awakened to strike off shackles of the past.

The masses of our people are better fed, clothed, and housed than their fathers were.

Today, the iconic name shepherds the masses to galleries and museums the world over.

In a culture that worships celebrities while pretending to disdain them, the Sony emails are catnip for the masses.

First on the to-do list, the profiling exercises to help the Western masses understand the nature of the wretched beast.

Under the Sun King, such humor—and the laughter associated with it—was seen as more suitable for the masses.