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1. The common people generally
   - multitude, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed
    
2. [Brit] A large number or amount
   - tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs [N. Amer], scads [N. Amer], lashings [Brit]

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
   - batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mess, mickle [archaic], mint, mountain, muckle, passel [US], 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. A body of matter without definite shape
   "a huge ice mass"
    
5. The property of something that is great in magnitude
   "he received a mass of correspondence"
   - bulk, volume

1. (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
    
2. A sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite
   "the priest said Mass"
    
3. A musical setting for a Mass
   "they played a Mass composed by Beethoven"

1. A shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball
   - massé shot

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

Type of: accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, body, church music, collection, crowd, crowd together, fundamental measure, fundamental quantity, group, grouping, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, magnitude, physical property, prayer, religious ceremony, religious music, religious ritual, shot, stroke

Part of: billiards, High Mass, pocket billiards, pool

Encyclopedia: Mass, Chapter and Conventual Mass Mass, Liturgy of the Mass, Nuptial Mass, Music of the