noun
Meaning 1
plural of mass
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
masses
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈmæs.ɪz/
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CMU ARPABET: M AE1 S AH0 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: M AE1 S IH0 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
plural of masse
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
People, especially a large number of people; the general population.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Qualifier: generically
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The total population.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Examples
- The masses will be voting this Tuesday.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
The lower classes or all but the elite.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Examples
- [...] the ignorant masses [...]
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
third-person singular simple present indicative of mass
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
the common people generally
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- separate the warriors from the mass
- power to the people
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: multitude, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: group, grouping
Narrower terms: laity, temporalty, audience, following, followers
History
Etymology
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: الْجَمَاهِير (al-jamāhīr) — people, especially a large number
- Belarusian: ма́сы (másy) — people, especially a large number
- Bulgarian: ма́си (mási) — people, especially a large number
- Chinese Mandarin: 群眾 /群众 (qúnzhòng) — people, especially a large number
- Finnish: massat — people, especially a large number
- Finnish: kansa — people, especially a large number
- French: masses — people, especially a large number
- German: Massen — people, especially a large number
- Hindi: जनता (jantā) — people, especially a large number
- Hindi: अवाम (avām) — people, especially a large number
- Hindi: जमहूर (jamhūr) — people, especially a large number
- Japanese: 大衆 (taishū) — people, especially a large number
- Japanese: 民衆 (minshū) — people, especially a large number
- Korean: 군중 (gunjung) — people, especially a large number
- Korean: 대중 (daejung) — people, especially a large number
- Korean: 민중 (minjung) — people, especially a large number
- Malay: orang ramai — people, especially a large number
- Manx: pobble — people, especially a large number
- Māori: mātinitini — people, especially a large number
- Iranian Persian: جُمْهور (jomhur) — people, especially a large number
- Iranian Persian: عَوام (avâm) — people, especially a large number
- Polish: masy — people, especially a large number
- Russian: ма́ссы (mássy) — people, especially a large number
- Spanish: masas — people, especially a large number
- Tagalog: masa — people, especially a large number
- Ukrainian: ма́си (másy) — people, especially a large number
- Urdu: عَوام ('avām) — people, especially a large number
- Urdu: جَمْہُور (jamhūr) — people, especially a large number
Real reading context