mass
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noun
1 LARGE AMOUNT
a) (C) a large amount of a substance, liquid, or gas, that does not have a clear shape: The food had all congealed into a sticky mass.
(+ of): A mass of almost pure white cloud lay below us.
b) a mass of a large amount or quantity of something: a huge mass of data | The yard was just a mass of weeds.
c) masses of BrE informal a large amount of something, or a lot of people or things: Masses of books covered every surface in the room. | We still had masses of time to spare.
2 CROWD (singular) a large crowd
(+ of): There was a mass of people around the club entrance. | a solid mass: The road was blocked by a solid mass of protesters.
3 the masses all the ordinary people in society who do not have power or influence, and are thought of as not being very educated
4 the mass of people/workers/the population etc most of the people in a group or society; the majority: The mass of black children there have fewer educational opportunities than their white counterparts.
5 SCIENCE (U) technical in science, mass is the amount of material in something: the mass of a star
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adjective (only before noun)
1 involving or intended for a very large number of people: Radio can reach mass audiences. | a mass protest
2 mass murderer someone who has murdered a lot of people
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verb (I, T)
to come together, or make people or things come together, in a large group: grey clouds massing behind the mountains | The country massed several divisions of troops along its border.
Longman dictionary of contemporary English.
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