Main entry: Mass
Definition: (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
Main entry: mass
Definition: the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
Main entry: volume, mass, bulk
Definition: the property of something that is great in magnitude
Usage: it is cheaper to buy it in bulk; he received a mass of correspondence; the volume of exports
Main entry: Mass
Definition: a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite
Usage: the priest said Mass
Main entry: Mass
Definition: a musical setting for a Mass
Usage: they played a Mass composed by Beethoven
Main entry: mass
Definition: an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
Main entry: hoi polloi, the great unwashed, mass, masses, multitude, people
Definition: the common people generally
Usage: separate the warriors from the mass; power to the people
Main entry: mass
Definition: a body of matter without definite shape
Usage: a huge ice mass
Main entry: batch, mint, mountain, muckle, peck, passel, tidy sum, deal, spate, sight, slew, stack, heap, hatful, good deal, great deal, wad, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, lot, mass, mess, mickle, flock
Definition: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
Usage: a batch of letters; a deal of trouble; a lot of money; he made a mint on the stock market; see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos; it must have cost plenty; a slew of journalists; a wad of money
Main entry: mass
Definition: join together into a mass or collect or form a mass
Usage: Crowds were massing outside the palace
Main entry: aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass
Definition: formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole
Usage: aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year; the aggregated amount of indebtedness