Mass - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent (syn: batch, deal, flock, heap, lot, mess, mint, mountain, peck, pile, plenty, pot, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, wad)
- an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
- (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
- a body of matter without definite shape
- a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite
verb
adjective
Extra examples
A large crowd of demonstrators massed outside the courthouse.
Clouds were massing on the horizon.
The generals massed their troops.
Television is a mass medium.
A large gray, indistinct mass stretched all along from east to west.
There were masses of camellias and azaleas.
There is a mass of letters on my table this morning.
He is a mass of bruises.
The great mass of the people had no part in the election of representatives.
The great bands of caribou massed up on the edge of the woods.
The food had congealed into a sticky mass.
Masses of books covered every surface in the room.
There was a mass of people around the club entrance.
The road was blocked by a solid mass of protesters.
What time do you go to mass?
Word forms
I/you/we/they: mass
he/she/it: masses
present participle: massing
past tense: massed
past participle: massed
singular: mass
plural: masses
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