Meaning & Definition of Mass in English

1. The property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field

2. (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"

3. An ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people)

4. (roman catholic church and protestant churches) the celebration of the eucharist

5. A body of matter without definite shape

• "A huge ice mass"

6. The common people generally

• "Separate the warriors from the mass"

• "Power to the people"

7. 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"

8. A musical setting for a mass

• "They played a mass composed by beethoven"

9. A sequence of prayers constituting the christian eucharistic rite

• "The priest said mass"

1. Join together into a mass or collect or form a mass

• "Crowds were massing outside the palace"

1. 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"