masses

1. 1.

   the common people generally

   “separate the warriors from the mass”

   “power to the people”

   Synonymsmultitudemasshoi polloipeoplethe great unwashed

   Broadergroup

   Narrowerlaityaudiencefollowing

Other forms of masses

plural

masseses·

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.

Questions about masses

What does masses mean?

masses means "the common people generally".

How many syllables are in masses?

masses has 2 syllables: mas-ses. The stress falls on "mas". In IPA it is /ˈmæsəz/.

What is another word for masses?

Close synonyms include multitude, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed. 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 masses a common word?

masses is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.