Source : WordNet®

mass
     adj 1: occurring widely (as to many people); "mass destruction"
            [syn: {large-scale}]
     2: gathered or tending to gather into a mass or whole;
        "aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions
        combined for the entire year"; "the aggregated amount of
        indebtedness" [syn: {aggregate}, {aggregated}, {aggregative}]
     [also: {masses} (pl)]

masses
     n : the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the
         mass"; "power to the people" [syn: {multitude}, {mass}, {hoi
         polloi}, {people}]

mass
     n 1: the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a
          gravitational field
     2: (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"; "it must
        have cost plenty" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good
        deal}, {great deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mess}, {mickle},
         {mint}, {muckle}, {peck}, {pile}, {plenty}, {pot}, {quite
        a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew}, {spate}, {stack}, {tidy
        sum}, {wad}, {whole lot}, {whole slew}]
     3: an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or
        people)
     4: (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the
        celebration of the Eucharist
     5: a body of matter without definite shape; "a huge ice mass"
     6: the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the
        mass"; "power to the people" [syn: {multitude}, {masses},
        {hoi polloi}, {people}]
     7: 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" [syn: {bulk}, {volume}]
     8: a musical setting for a Mass; "they played a Mass composed
        by Beethoven"
     9: a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian eucharistic
        rite; "the priest said Mass"
     [also: {masses} (pl)]

mass
     v : join together into a mass or collect or form a mass; "Crowds
         were massing outside the palace"
     [also: {masses} (pl)]

masses
     See {mass}