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UK
/mˈæsɪz/
]
[ US /ˈmæsəz, ˈmæsɪz/ ]
[ US /ˈmæsəz, ˈmæsɪz/ ]
NOUN
-
the common people generally
separate the warriors from the mass
power to the people
How To Use masses In A Sentence
- Instead of asking the fortunate few, why doesn't Ted asked the gifted masses of state employees to do a little giveback? We're! Number! 5! (Jack Bog's Blog)
- The black and white images suggested a lunar surface with bright elevated land masses, grooved by sloping drainage channels and seemingly surrounded by dark, still pools of oily liquid.
- It is patent that dusk found them weary and worn, plodding and wading silently "homewards," shovel on shoulder, across four or five kilos of desolate mud; falling and tripping over stagnant bodies, masses of tangled wire, bricks and jagged wood-work everywhere impeding progress. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry
- He has bags of skill and masses of experience, which is very important.
- This role of film as an instance of mass media is opposed to that of Adorno, who could only conceptualise the mass media as a means of stupefying the masses in a capitalist society.
- [116] A chaplaincy is a pious foundation made by any religious person, and elected into a benefice by the ecclesiastical ordinary, with the annexed obligation of saying a certain number of masses, or with the obligation of other analogous spiritual duties. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
- The masses have been ignored and excluded from public life. The Tribes Triumphant
- All day long, she had been dealing with the clones, the carbon copy popular masses.
- No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth. John F. Kennedy
- A triple-beam balance gets its name because it has three beams that allow you to move known masses along the beam.