0 having an effect on or involving a large number of people or forming a large amount:
weapons of mass destruction
a mass murderer
mass starvation
Opposition groups plan to stage mass demonstrations all over the country.
1 a large amount of something that has no particular shape or arrangement:
3 the ordinary people who form the largest group in a society:
4 the amount of matter in any solid object or in any volume of liquid or gas:
5 a religious ceremony in some Christian Churches based on Jesus' last meal with his disciples, or music written for parts of this ceremony:
to go to Mass
6 to come together in large numbers:
Thousands of troops have massed along the border in preparation for an invasion.
8 the amount of matter in any solid object or in any volume of liquid or gas
9 the outside size or shape of an object, or how big it appears to be
10 to come or bring together in large numbers:
[ I ] The crowd massed around the entrance to the exhibition.
11 involving or having an effect on a large number of people or things:
12 (esp. in the Roman Catholic Church) a religious ceremony based on Jesus’s last meal with his disciples (= the men who followed him), or music written for the parts of this ceremony
13 having an effect on or involving a large number of people:
There have been two decades of mass unemployment.
mass audience/appeal A smaller company could produce a breakthrough product with mass appeal.
mass consumerism/consumption The society that we live in now is so geared to spending and mass consumerism.
14 the amount of matter in any solid object or volume of liquid or gas:
These activities help strengthen bones and increase their mass.
During times of mass unemployment, there's a pool of cheap labour for employers to draw from.
There were mass deportations in the 1930s, when thousands of people were forced to leave the country.
There have been mass desertions from the party in recent months.
There has been a mass exodus of workers from the villages to the towns.
The regime tried to silence dissent with a programme of mass murder.
Her daughter's hair is a mass of wonderful red corkscrew curls.
She was disappointed to see her essay returned with a mass of corrections in red ink.
The liquid suddenly solidifies into a gelatinous mass.
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