mass
noun
[ mas ]
• a large body of matter with no definite shape.
• "the sun broke out from behind a mass of clouds"
Similar:
pile,
heap,
stack,
clump,
cloud,
bunch,
bundle,
lump,
concentration,
conglomeration,
accumulation,
aggregation,
concretion,
accretion,
assemblage,
collection,
stockpile,
build-up,
amassment,
• a large number of people or objects crowded together.
• "a mass of cyclists"
Similar:
large number,
abundance,
profusion,
multitude,
group,
crowd,
mob,
rabble,
horde,
barrage,
throng,
huddle,
host,
troop,
army,
herd,
flock,
drove,
swarm,
pack,
press,
crush,
mountain,
flood,
• the majority of.
• "the great mass of the population had little interest in the project"
Similar:
majority,
larger part/number,
greater part/number,
best/better part,
major part,
most,
bulk,
main body,
preponderance,
almost all,
lion's share,
• the quantity of matter which a body contains, as measured by its acceleration under a given force or by the force exerted on it by a gravitational field.
• "stellar objects of intermediate mass"
mass
adjective
• involving or affecting large numbers of people or things.
• "the film has mass appeal"
mass
verb
• assemble or cause to assemble into a single body or mass.
• "both countries began massing troops in the region"
Similar:
accumulate,
assemble,
amass,
collect,
gather,
gather together,
draw together,
join together,
marshal,
muster,
round up,
mobilize,
rally,
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French masse, from Latin massa, from Greek maza ‘barley cake’; perhaps related to massein ‘knead’.
Mass
noun
• the celebration of the Christian Eucharist, especially in the Roman Catholic Church.
• "we went to Mass"
Similar:
Eucharist,
Holy Communion,
Communion,
the Lord's Supper,
Origin:
Old English mæsse, from ecclesiastical Latin missa ‘dismissal, prayer at the conclusion of a liturgy, liturgy, mass’, from Latin miss- ‘dismissed’, from mittere ‘send, dismiss’.
Mass.
abbreviation
• Massachusetts.
in mass
• as a body.
• "men advancing in mass"
