Definition of Mass

Noun: mass  mas

1. The property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
    
2. (often followed by 'of') a large number, amount or extent
   "a mass of letters";
   - batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mess, mickle [archaic], mint, mountain, muckle, passel [US], peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, bunch
    
3. An ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
    
4. A body of matter without definite shape
   "a huge ice mass"
    
5. The common people generally
   "separate the warriors from the mass";
   - multitude, masses, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed
    
6. The property of something that is great in magnitude
   "he received a mass of correspondence";
   - bulk, volume

Verb: mass  mas

1. Join together into a mass, collect or form a mass
   "Crowds were massing outside the palace"

Adjective: mass  mas

1. Formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole
   "mass expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year";
   - aggregate, aggregated, aggregative

Noun: Mass  mas

1. (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
    
2. A musical setting for a Mass
   "they played a Mass composed by Beethoven"
    
3. A sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite
   "the priest said Mass"

See also:
masques
massa

Anagrams containing the word Mass

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