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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mass
adjective
1: occurring widely (as to many people); "mass destruction" [syn: {large-scale}]
2: gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness" [syn: {aggregate}, {aggregated}, {aggregative}]
noun
1: the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
2: (often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must have cost plenty" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good deal}, {great deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mess}, {mickle}, {mint}, {muckle}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty}, {pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate}, {stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}, {whole lot}, {whole slew}]
3: an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
4: (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
5: a body of matter without definite shape; "a huge ice mass"
6: the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people" [syn: {multitude}, {masses}, {hoi polloi}, {people}]
7: the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports" [syn: {bulk}, {volume}]
8: a musical setting for a Mass; "they played a Mass composed by Beethoven"
9: a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian eucharistic rite; "the priest said Mass"
verb: join together into a mass or collect or form a mass; "Crowds were massing outside the palace" [also: {masses} (pl)]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
masses
noun: the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people" [syn: {multitude}, {mass}, {hoi polloi}, {people}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
masses See {mass}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
36 Moby Thesaurus words for "masses": cog, commonality, commonalty, creature, flunky, follower, hoi polloi, ignobile vulgus, inferior, junior, lightweight, lower class, lower orders, many-headed multitude, mobile vulgus, pawn, second fiddle, secondary, subaltern, subordinate, the common herd, the crowd, the great unnumbered, the great unwashed, the herd, the hoi polloi, the horde, the majority, the many, the masses, the mob, the multitude, third stringer, underling, understrapper, yes-man
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