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mass
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- pronunciation:
- maes
- parts of speech:
- noun, adjective, verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, adjective, verb), Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a large amount or number.
A mass of people walked into the hall.- synonyms:
- accumulation, crowd, horde, host, lot, multitude
- similar words:
- abundance, assembly, bank, bunch, collection, deposit, flock, gathering, group, heap, load, many, pile, quantity, stack, ton
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| definition 2: |
a body of matter that has no form.
He took a mass of wet clay and began to shape it.- synonyms:
- hunk
- similar words:
- block, cake, chunk, clump, deposit, lump, wad
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| definition 3: |
the greater part of anything.
The mass of the students wanted more lunch choices in the cafeteria.- synonyms:
- body, bulk, majority, most
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| definition 4: |
size or bulk.
The mass of this brick is greater than the mass of that book.- similar words:
- bulk, dimensions, magnitude, matter, size, volume, weight
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| definition 5: |
(plural) the total body of common people (usually with "the").
The royal family listened to the will of the masses.- synonyms:
- crowd, people, public
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| related words: |
accumulation, army, batch, body, ceremony, church, clod, clot, cluster, drift, growth, jam, legion, lot, mountain, proportion, wealth |
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
having to do with the masses or large numbers of people.
TV is a form of mass communication.- synonyms:
- popular, public
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| part of speech: |
verb |
| inflections: |
masses, massing, massed |
| definition: |
to come together to form a mass.
The people massed in front of the governor's door.- synonyms:
- concentrate, congregate, crowd, gather, throng
- similar words:
- cluster
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| related words: |
band, clot, concentrate, congregate, flock, huddle, throng |
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