mass meaning and definition

MASS noun

Definition of mass (noun)

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"; "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"
   • synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
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"
   • synonyms: hoi polloi, masses, multitude, people, the great unwashed
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"
   • synonyms: 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"

MASS verb

Definition of mass (verb)

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

MASS adjective

Definition of mass (adjective)

1. 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"
   • synonyms: aggregate, aggregated, aggregative