mass

Meanings

• 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
  • "a huge ice mass"
• the common people generally
  • "separate the warriors from the mass"
• the property of something that is great in magnitude
  • "he received a mass of correspondence"
• a musical setting for a Mass
  • "they played a Mass composed by Beethoven"
• a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite
  • "the priest said Mass"
• join together into a mass or collect or form a mass
  • "Crowds were massing outside the palace"
• formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole

Synonyms

aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, batch, bulk, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, hoi polloi, lot, masses, 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