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

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

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

n. an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)

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

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"

adj. 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"

n. the property of being comparatively great in weight; "the heaviness of lead"

n. a solid lump of a precious metal (especially gold) as found in the earth

n. a man who serves as a sailor

n. a tight cluster of people or things; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"

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

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"; "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. the property of holding together and retaining its shape; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake"

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. 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. a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"

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. class composed of persons lacking noble or knightly or gentle rank

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 community"

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

n. the class of peasants

n. a formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"

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

adj. having the indivisible character of a unit; "a unitary action"; "spoke with one voice"

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 detailed or specific; "a broad rule"; "the broad outlines of the plan"; "felt an unspecific dread"

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"

adj. clustered together but not coherent; "an agglomerated flower head"

adj. formed by fitting or joining components together

adj. characterized by the principle of ownership by the state or the people of the means of production