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say it: mas
mass is a noun, verb and adjective meaning "the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field". It carries 11 recorded senses.
the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
(often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
“a batch of letters”
“a deal of trouble”
“a lot of money”
“he made a mint on the stock market”
“see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos”
“it must have cost plenty”
“a slew of journalists”
“a wad of money”
an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)
(Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist
Roman Catholic · Protestant Church
the common people generally
“separate the warriors from the mass”
“power to the people”
the property of something that is great in magnitude
“it is cheaper to buy it in bulk”
“he received a mass of correspondence”
“the volume of exports”
a musical setting for a Mass
“they played a Mass composed by Beethoven”
a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite
“the priest said Mass”
formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole
“aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year”
“the aggregated amount of indebtedness”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for mass come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.