n. a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite; "the priest said Mass"

n. the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field

n. (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist

n. a body of matter without definite shape; "a huge ice mass"

n. a musical setting for a Mass; "they played a Mass composed by Beethoven"

n. 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"

n. the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people"

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

adj. "mass destruction"

n. a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky

n. the property possessed by a large mass

n. an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "a piano has a greater range than the human voice"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power"

n. the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; "the area of a rectangle"; "it was about 500 square feet in area"

n. an adequate or large amount; "he had a quantity of ammunition"

n. 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"

n. a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship

n. (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another

n. the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part; "the majority of his customers prefer it"; "the bulk of the work is finished"

n. the property of being extremely abundant; "the profusion of detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English"

n. an oppressive quality that is laborious and solemn and lacks grace or fluency; "a book so serious that it sometimes subsided into ponderousness"; "his lectures tend to heaviness and repetition"

n. a large piece of something without definite shape; "a hunk of bread"; "a lump of coal"

n. a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite; "the priest said Mass"

n. a large magnitude; "he blanched when he saw the size of the bill"; "the only city of any size in that area"

n. the property of being extremely abundant; "the profusion of detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English"

n. a full supply; "there was plenty of food for everyone"

n. the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; "the area of a rectangle"; "it was about 500 square feet in area"

n. a disorderly crowd of people

n. in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity)

n. people in general considered as a whole; "he is a hero in the eyes of the public"

n. a large number of things or people considered together; "a crowd of insects assembled around the flowers"

n. a large gathering of people

n. an association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves"

n. an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose

n. a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages; "there is a shortage of skilled labor in this field"

n. group of people related by blood or marriage

n. a social division of (usually preliterate) people

n. the management of a gambling house or casino; "the house gets a percentage of every bet"

n. people in general (often used in the plural); "they're just country folk"; "folks around here drink moonshine"; "the common people determine the group character and preserve its customs from one generation to the next"

n. disparaging terms for the common people

n. the common people

n. people who constitute the main body of any group

n. a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community"

n. the body of people in a learned occupation; "the news spread rapidly through the medical profession"; "they formed a community of scientists"

n. an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization

n. the class of peasants

n. a group of person living under a religious rule; "the order of Saint Benedict"

n. a body of people sharing some common interest; "the reading public"

adj. "the country at large"; "I enjoyed the play as a whole though I thought the acting could have been better"

adj. representing the whole of a state or body rather than one specific division or part of it: "ambassador-at-large"

adj. not caused by a specific agent; used also of staining in making microscope slides; "nonspecific enteritis"

adj. widely circulated or diffused; "a widespread doctrine"; "widespread fear of nuclear war"

adj. not limited in use or function

adj. applicable to an entire class or group; "is there a generic Asian mind?"

adj. lacking fine distinctions or detail; "the gross details of the structure appear reasonable"

adj. not characteristic of or skilled in applied arts and sciences; "nontechnical aspects of the job"; "nontechnical training"; "an untechnical reader"; "in clear effective nontechnical language"

adj. constituting a grab-bag category; "the usual collection of miscellaneous expenses"

adj. involving only main features; "the overall pattern of his life"

adj. existing everywhere; "pandemic fear of nuclear war"

adj. spreading or spread throughout; "armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor of garlic"; "an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion"