mass

mass
n
1. pile, heap, stack, accumulation, bulk, drift, cumulus; hoard, store, stock, stockpile, supply; lump, deposit, swell, mound, tumulus; bank, hillock, hummock, hill, mountain; bale, bundle, cock, shock, rick, mow; load, barrow, cartload, wagonload, carload, cargo; cake, nugget, block, chunk, hunk; clot, coagulum, curd.
2. collection, amassment, assemblage, aggregation; concentration, agglomeration, conglomeration, cluster, congeries; assortment, variety, medley, miscellany, jumble, hodgepodge; clutter, Inf. mess.
3. abundance, bounty, volume, plenty; quantity, profusion, Inf. lots, Inf. raft, storm, shower, ocean, sea, world; hoard, store, considerable amount, deal, great deal; Inf. lots, peck, Inf. oodles, Inf. tons; Sl. gobs, Sl. scads, Inf. slews.
4. whole, totality, entirety, aggregate; total, sum, sum total, everything; concretion, gross amount, Sl. whole bit, Sl. whole schmear.
5. clump, tuft, tussock, thicket, grove, truss, Bot. raceme, Bot. panicle; bouquet, posy, bunch, batch; shock, sheaf; fagot, fascicle.
6. group, knot, band, company; body, congregation, assembly, gathering; crowd, number, mob, throng; bevy, covey, gaggle, flock, swarm, hive, school, pack, drove, herd; lot, parcel; multitude, galaxy, constellation; throng, array, legion, score.
7. majority, main body, greater part, almost all, lion's share, preponderance.
8. size, dimension, magnitude, capacity; bigness, massiveness, immensity; greatness, ampleness, bulkiness, hugeness, ponderosity.
9. the masses
the common people, the working class, the lower class, huddled masses; the common man, the man in the street; peasants, proletariat, plebeians, the hoi polloi; rabble, Both Disparaging. the great unwashed, the undeserving poor.
v
10. assemble, accumulate, amass; group together, draw together, lump together; compile, collate, collocate, colligate, unite, join together; anthologize, collect, garner, glean, marshal; organize, order, codify, methodize, systematize.
11. convene, forgather, come together; meet, Inf. gang up, huddle, go into a huddle, get together, rendezvous.
12. group, cluster, concentrate, bunch up or together; crowd, congregate, agglomerate; flock together, throng, herd, swarm, surge; rally, muster, mobilize, levy; round up, round in.

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