masses

Noun

• the common people generally
• the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
• 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
• the common people generally
• the property of something that is great in magnitude
• a musical setting for a Mass
• a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite
• a shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball
• plural of mass
• plural of masse
• People, especially a large number of people; the general population.
• The total population.
• The lower classes or all but the elite.

Verb

• join together into a mass or collect or form a mass
• third-person singular simple present indicative of mass

Examples

• […] the ignorant masses […]
• The masses will be voting this Tuesday.

Synonyms

batch, bulk, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, hoi polloi, lot, Mass, mass, masse, masse shot, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, multitude, passel, peck, people, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, the great unwashed, tidy sum, volume, wad, unwashed

Related Words

unwashed masses