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mass
- pronunciation:
- maes
- parts of speech:
- noun, adjective, intransitive verb, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a large unspecified amount or number.
a mass of people in the hall- synonyms:
- accumulation, aggregation, crowd, horde, host, lot, multitude, throng
- similar words:
- abundance, assembly, bank, bunch, collection, deposit, fleet, flock, gathering, group, heap, load, many, multiplicity, myriad, pile, quantity, stack, ton, volume
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| definition 2: |
a body of relatively formless matter, often of a large size.
a mass of wet clay- synonyms:
- hunk
- similar words:
- agglomerate, block, cake, chunk, clump, concretion, deposit, glob, lump, wad
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| definition 3: |
the greater part of anything.
The mass of the members wanted free elections.- synonyms:
- body, bulk, majority, most, weight
- similar words:
- lion's share
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| definition 4: |
in physics, the quality of a body that determines its resistance to acceleration.
- similar words:
- bulk, matter, weight
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| definition 5: |
size or bulk.
- similar words:
- bulk, dimensions, gravity, magnitude, matter, size, volume, weight
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| definition 6: |
(pl.) the total body of common people (usu. prec. by the).
- synonyms:
- crowd, mob, multitude, people, public
- similar words:
- canaille, hoi polloi, proletariat, rabble
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| related words: |
accumulation, army, batch, benediction, body, ceremony, church, clod, clot, cluster, conglomeration, crush, deposition, drift, gather, growth, jam, legion, liturgy, lot, mountain, ocean, office, profusion, proportion, wave, wealth |
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
pertaining to that which characterizes or affects the masses or large numbers of people.
mass culturemass communicationmass paranoia- synonyms:
- popular, public
- similar words:
- mob, plebeian
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| part of speech: |
intransitive verb |
| inflections: |
massed, masses, massing |
| definition: |
to merge together to form a mass.
The people massed in front of the governor's door.- synonyms:
- amass, collect, concentrate, conglomerate, congregate, crowd, gather, throng
- similar words:
- agglomerate, cluster, horde
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| related words: |
band, clot, concentrate, congregate, flock, huddle, pack, throng |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| definition: |
to assemble or group into a mass.
- synonyms:
- aggregate, assemble, collect, concentrate, conglomerate, congregate, gather
- similar words:
- agglomerate, amass
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| related words: |
band, bank, cluster, collect, concentrate, pack |
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