Overview of noun mass

The noun mass has 9 senses

• mass -- (the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field)


• batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad -- ((often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "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")


• mass -- (an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people))


• Mass -- ((Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist)


• mass -- (a body of matter without definite shape; "a huge ice mass")


• multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed -- (the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people")


• bulk, mass, volume -- (the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports")


• Mass -- (a musical setting for a Mass; "they played a Mass composed by Beethoven")


• Mass -- (a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite; "the priest said Mass")

Overview of verb mass

The verb mass has 1 sense

• mass -- (join together into a mass or collect or form a mass; "Crowds were massing outside the palace")

Overview of adj mass

The adj mass has 1 sense

• aggregate, aggregated, aggregative, mass -- (formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole; "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of indebtedness")