“mass”

Definitions

• noun

  (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist

  Synonyms: g, abundance, accouple, accumulate, accumulation, acervation, acres, adhere, agglomerate, agglomeration, agglutinate, aggregate

• noun

  a musical setting for a Mass

  • Example:“They played a Mass composed by Beethoven.”

• noun

  a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite

  • Example:“The priest said Mass.”

• adjective

  formed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole

  Synonyms: aggregate, aggregated, aggregative

  • Example:“Aggregate expenses include expenses of all divisions combined for the entire year.”
  • Example:“the aggregated amount of indebtedness”

• noun

  the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field

• noun

  (often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent

  Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mess, mickle

  • Example:“a batch of letters”
  • Example:“a deal of trouble”