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  • as in people

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  • as in accumulates

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masses
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noun

Definition of massesnext

plural of mass

as in people

the body of the community as contrasted with the elite

the masses demanded the elimination of tax breaks for the rich

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • people

  • crowd

  • public

  • commoners

  • populace

  • millions

  • mob

  • commons

  • plebeians

  • plebs

  • multitude

  • herd

  • rabble

  • unwashed

  • proletariat

  • cattle

  • hoi polloi

  • rout

  • bourgeoisie

  • riffraff

  • rank and file

  • scum

  • rabblement

  • tagrag and bobtail

  • trash

  • middle class

  • tag, rag, and bobtail

  • ragtag and bobtail


Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • elite

  • aristocracy

  • choice

  • flower

  • cream

  • fat

  • elect

  • upper crust

  • pride

  • pink

  • society

  • pick

  • best

  • quality

  • nobility

  • royalty

  • gentry

  • Alist

  • corps d’elite

  • patriciate

  • gentility

  • gentlefolk

  • peerage

  • gentlefolks

  • haute monde

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  • elite

  • aristocracy

  • choice

  • flower

  • cream

  • fat

  • elect

  • upper crust

  • pride

  • pink

  • society

  • pick

  • best

  • quality

  • nobility

  • royalty

  • gentry

  • Alist

  • corps d’elite

  • patriciate

  • gentility

  • gentlefolk

  • peerage

  • gentlefolks

  • haute monde

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masses

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verb

present tense third-person singular of mass

as in accumulates

to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass

clouds massing on the western side of the mountain range

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • accumulates

  • conglomerates

  • gathers

  • clumps

  • concentrates

  • lumps

  • amasses

  • accretes

  • drifts

  • collects

  • agglutinates

  • builds up

  • banks

  • ridges

  • piles (up)

  • stacks (up)


Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • disperses

  • dissipates

  • scatters

  • disperses

  • dissipates

  • scatters

Thesaurus Entries Near masses

massed

masses

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Translations: the word in the other languages

  • Afrikaans: massas
  • Amharic: እንደ
  • Arabic: الجماهير
  • Azerbaijani: kütlə
  • Bashkir: массаһы
  • Belarusian: мас
  • Bulgarian: на масите
  • Bengali: জনসাধারণ
  • Bosnian: mase
  • Catalan: masses
  • Cebuano: kadaghanan
  • Czech: mas
  • Welsh: llu
  • Danish: masserne
  • German: Massen
  • Greek: μάζες
  • Esperanto: mesoj
  • Spanish: masas
  • Estonian: massid
  • Basque: masa
  • Persian: توده ها
  • Finnish: massat
  • French: masses
  • Irish: maiseanna
  • Scottish Gaelic: tomadan
  • Galician: masas
  • Gujarati: લોકો
  • Hebrew: ההמונים
  • Hindi: जनता
  • Croatian: masa
  • Haitian: mas
  • Hungarian: tömegek
  • Armenian: զանգվածների
  • Indonesian: massa
  • Icelandic: fjöldans
  • Italian: masse
  • Japanese:
  • Javanese: masal
  • Georgian: მასები
  • Kazakh: масс
  • Khmer: មហាជន
  • Kannada: ಜನಸಾಮಾನ್ಯರಿಗೆ
  • Korean:
  • Kyrgyz: масс
  • Latin: missis
  • Luxembourgish: Massen
  • Lao: ມະຫາຊົນ
  • Lithuanian: masė
  • Latvian: masu
  • Malagasy: vahoaka
  • Mari: тӱшка
  • Maori: tini
  • Macedonian: масите
  • Malayalam: ബഹുജനങ്ങളെ
  • Mongolian: ард түмний
  • Marathi: जनतेला
  • Hill Mari: массышты
  • Malay: rakyat jelata
  • Maltese: mases
  • Burmese: ထု
  • Nepali: जनता
  • Dutch: massa ‘ s
  • Norwegian: massene
  • Punjabi: ਜਨਤਾ
  • Papiamento: mansa
  • Polish: mas
  • Portuguese: massas
  • Romanian: masele
  • Russian: масс
  • Sinhalese: ජනතාව
  • Slovak: masy
  • Slovenian: mase
  • Albanian: masat
  • Serbian: маса
  • Sundanese: massa
  • Swedish: massorna
  • Swahili: raia
  • Tamil: மக்களின்
  • Telugu: మాస్
  • Tajik: масса
  • Thai: เรียกความสนใจจากผู้ค
  • Tagalog: masa
  • Turkish: kitleler
  • Tatar: масс
  • Udmurt: масса
  • Ukrainian: мас
  • Urdu: عوام
  • Uzbek: aksariyat insonlar
  • Vietnamese: quần chúng
  • Xhosa: masses
  • Yiddish: מאסע
  • Chinese: 群众

Synonyms, close and similar words for masses

  • mass
  • people

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  1. masses

    The populace are poor and ignorant, but may be law-abiding; a mob is disorderly and lawless, but may be rich and influential. The rabble is despicable, worthless, purposeless; a mob may have effective desperate purpose. A crowd may be drawn by mere curiosity; some strong, pervading excitement is needed to make it a mob. Compare PEOPLE.

    Synonyms:
    canaille, crowd, dregs of the people, lower classes, mob, populace, rabble, the vulgar

Princeton’s WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashednoun

    the common people generally

    «separate the warriors from the mass»; «power to the people»

    Synonyms:
    tidy sum, plurality, wad, peck, mint, plenty, lot, pack, hoi polloi, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, pile, muckle, volume, mass, good deal, stack, mountain, multitude, deal, battalion, throng, flock, hatful, mickle, slew, citizenry, heap, mess, people, sight, large number, concourse, spate, the great unwashed, bulk, great deal, pot

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  1. Raul Castro:

    I promise that I will go to all of his Masses — and with satisfaction. I left the meeting this morning impressed, very impressed by his knowledge, his wisdom, modesty, and by all the virtues that we know he has.

  2. Angela Giampolo:

    ‘Zoolander’ is not the medium by which we should be teaching tolerance and/or educating the masses about transgender issues, moreover, there is something to be said for the fact that funny movies and satires have a role in mainstreaming hard to grasp issues.

  3. John Branch:

    The NFL may be the last bastion of football in 50 years, because I can imagine the slow death of the sport creeping up from the youth level, if we keep finding out about the long-term effects of brain damage caused by the game, it’s hard to imagine many parents will allow their children to play. Maybe high school and college football go away. And maybe football becomes more like MMA — a sport that has relatively few participants, but enough to entertain the masses, with athletes willing to take obvious health risks to achieve money and fame.

  4. Bobi Wine:

    The bad News is that everyone is a potential victim but the good news is that everyone is a potential solution, sensitise the masses to sanitize keep distance and quarantine — Bobi Wine on Corona Virus

  5. Gus Kenworthy:

    I ’m not everybody’s cup of tea, i ’m out and proud and gay and loud. I think that a lot of athletes really want to kind of feather the line of every different angle and sort of be able to appeal to the masses. I’ve already kind of accepted that that’s not what I ’m going to do. So I ’m just going to speak my truth.


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  • commonalty
  • mob
  • multitude
  • proletariat
  • rabble
  • riffraff
  • common people
  • great unwashed
  • hoi polloi
  • lower class
  • rank and file

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Irregular spurts of musketry heralded the appearance of confused masses of armed men.

THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY

A band of limestone also occurs at Templeton containing masses of a light-coloured translucent serpentine.

ASBESTOSROBERT H. JONES

Rounded scybalous masses are common in habitual constipation, and indicate atony of the muscular coat of the intestine.

A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODD

Generally, the ends are rounded and the striations faint, or only irregularly round or oval yellow masses are found.

A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSISJAMES CAMPBELL TODD

The sunken eyes, the tangled masses of raven hair, the look of exhaustion and hopeless woe.

THE WORLD BEFORE THEMSUSANNA MOODIE

The last cone of the mountain gave us some trouble: the route was very precipitous, and lay over bare, hot masses of rock.

A WOMAN’S JOURNEY ROUND THE WORLDIDA PFEIFFER

It blew out of the canyon-mouth like a gust from a chimney, rolling over and over in billowy masses.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985

WORDS RELATED TO MASSES

  • a person
  • all
  • any of
  • any person
  • anyone
  • anyone at all
  • each and every one
  • everybody
  • everyone
  • masses
  • one
  • public
  • whole world
  • a person
  • all
  • any of
  • any person
  • anybody
  • anybody at all
  • each and every one
  • everybody
  • everyone
  • masses
  • one
  • public
  • whole world
  • you
  • commoners
  • masses
  • rabble
  • riffraff
  • unwashed
  • folk
  • folks
  • hillbilly
  • hoi polloi
  • lower class
  • masses
  • proletariat
  • working class
  • army
  • array
  • blowout
  • bunch
  • cattle
  • circle
  • clique
  • cloud
  • cluster
  • company
  • concourse
  • confluence
  • conflux
  • congeries
  • congregation
  • coterie
  • crew
  • crush
  • deluge
  • drove
  • faction
  • flock
  • flood
  • gaggle
  • great unwashed
  • group
  • herd
  • horde
  • host
  • jam
  • legion
  • lot
  • mass
  • masses
  • meet
  • mob
  • multitude
  • muster
  • organization
  • pack
  • party
  • people
  • posse
  • press
  • rabble
  • rank and file
  • scores
  • sellout
  • set
  • stream
  • surge
  • swarm
  • throng
  • troupe
  • tumult
  • armies
  • arrays
  • blowouts
  • bunches
  • cattle
  • circles
  • cliques
  • clouds
  • clusters
  • companies
  • concourses
  • confluences
  • confluxes
  • congeries
  • congregations
  • coteries
  • crews
  • crushes
  • deluges
  • droves
  • factions
  • flocks
  • floods
  • gaggles
  • great unwasheds
  • groups
  • herds
  • hordes
  • hosts
  • jams
  • legions
  • lots
  • masses
  • masses
  • meets
  • mobs
  • multitudes
  • musters
  • organizations
  • packs
  • parties
  • people
  • posses
  • presses
  • rabbles
  • rank and files
  • scores
  • sellouts
  • sets
  • streams
  • surges
  • swarms
  • throngs
  • troupes
  • tumults

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