en masse

1. 1.

   all together

   “the students turned out en masse”

   Synonymsen blocas a group

Questions about en masse

What does en masse mean?

en masse means "all together".

What is another word for en masse?

Close synonyms include en bloc, as a group. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is en masse a common word?

en masse is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.